David Weitzman grew up in Chicago, where he spent countless hours enthralled by the Egyptian artifacts at the Oriental Institute and the Field Museum of Natural History. When he wasn’t in museums, he could often be found teaching himself hieroglyphics from an old textbook that he discovered in his school library, and imagining the day when he would be uncovering ancient temples and treasure-filled burial chambers himself!
Things didn’t turn out quite like that, but the author did make his way to Egypt to see the sights he’d been dreaming about since he was a boy. It was at the foot of Cheops’s great pyramid that David first heard about the “Sun Boat.” From the moment David laid eyes on it, he knew there was a story waiting to be told.
David lived in the foothills of the Yolla Bolly Mountains near Covelo, California, where he enjoyed hiking, reading, drawing, and writing on a computer powered by the sun.
Self portrait from Old Ironsides.
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