David B. McKinney lived in the Houston, Texas, Suburb of Spring. A Former journalist, he retired after thirty-one years with a major oil company and taught communications part-time at the University of Houston for eleven years. McKinney is a contributor to four communications textbooks and author of The Invisible Four and Quest for Closure. He and his wife, Dana, are part-year residents of Galveston, Texas. They have three adult children and eight grandchildren.
