Dr. David Aiken

Dr. Aiken is a professor of English at the College of Charleston and The Citadel. He is author of Fire in the Cradle, a history of the many famous writers of Charleston, South Carolina; and editor of the recently published A City Laid Waste, The Capture, Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, by William Gilmore Simms.  Dr. Aiken is past president of the William Gilmore Simms Society, and the South Carolina Poetry Society.