Don Keith

Don Keith (born in 12 December 1947, Springville, Alabama) is an award-winning, best-selling author of novels and non-fiction books, filmmaker, screenwriter, freelance writer, radio personality and radio producer.
==Biography==
Keith was born in 12 December 1947, in Springville, Alabama. He attended Springville High School from 1963 to 1966 and studied at the University of Alabama from 1966 to 1970, earning a Broadcast and Film Communication degree.
He worked as a broadcast journalist. As a news editor and reporter, he won awards from the Associated Press and United Press International. He was the first winner of Troy University's Hector Award for innovation in broadcast journalism. As an on-the-air broadcaster, he won twice the Billboard Radio Personality of the Year.
His first novel, The Forever Season (1995), received the Fiction of the Year award from the Alabama Library Association.
In addition to novels and non-fiction books, he also has written articles in publications (such as The Washington Post, CQ Amateur Radio, The American Legion Magazine, K9YA Telegraph, QST, 1819 News, and The Irish Times) and several scripts. He has appeared on some television shows and from 2019 is a partner in the film production company Fig Tree Media Group.
Keith is also a public speaker and conducts writing workshops and seminars across the country.
He created and supports the project Untold Millions, that pursues to save stories and memories of witnesses of various historical events.
Keith was an amateur radio operator since 1961, with different call signs (first WN4BDW, later WA4BDW and from the 70s N4KC). He has also been related to the professional world of radio for over 22 years: worked as radio personality from 1970 to 1979 in Birmingham, Alabama, and in Nashville, Tennessee from 1979 to about 1983; owned his own consultancy; co-owned with Sherri Brice the radio station WZEW from Mobile, Alabama from 1983 to 1986; and presented and produced several nationally syndicated radio shows.
In Birmingham, Alabama, he worked in develop and manage marketing media software with Tapscan and Arbitron from 1990 to 2002 and he was vice president of marketing and communications in Education Corporation of America from 2002 to 2012.
He and his wife, Charlene, lived in Indian Springs Village and later in Pelham, Alabama.
==Works==
===Novels===
Hunter Killer series (with George Wallace):
# Final Bearing (2003), 
# Dangerous Grounds (2015), 
# Cuban Deep (2019), 
# Fast Attack (2019), 
# Arabian Storm (2020), 
# Warshot (2021), 
# Silent Running (2022), 
# Snapshot (2023), 
The Ride series (as Jeffery Addison, with Edie Hand):
# The Soldier's Ride (2009), 
# The Last Christmas Ride: A Novella (2007), novella, 
Stand-alones:
* The Forever Season (1995), 
* Firing Point, or Hunter Killer (2011), with George Wallace, 
* The Spin (2012), 
===Young adult novels===
# White Lightning (1999), 
# Road to Daytona (1999), 
# Race To Glory (1999), 
# On to Talladega (2000), 
# Young Guns (2000), 
# Inside Pass (2000), 
# On the Throttle (2001), 
===Non-fiction===
;Biographies:
* The Ice Diaries: The Untold Story of the USS Nautilus and the Cold War's Most Daring Mission (2008), with William R. Anderson, 
* We Be Big: The Mostly True Story of How Two Kids from Calhoun County, Alabama, Became Rick & Bubba (2011), with Rick Burgess and Bill Bussey, 
* Dream On: A Journey to Deliverance (2017), with Steve R. Skipper, 
* Richard Bong: America's #1 Ace Fighter Pilot of World War II (2023), 
;Guides:
* Writing to be Published... and Read (2012), 
* Dial Dancing: Tales of the the fascinating, fabulous, frequency-hopping, wavelength-walking, power punching, ionosphere-scorching, ditting and dahing, ... wide and wonderful world of amateur radio (2015), 
;Society:
* Understanding Sectoral Determination 6: The Private Security Sector, South Africa (2010), 
==Adaptations==
* Hunter Killer (2018), film directed by Donovan Marsh, based on novel Firing Point
Category:1947 births
Category:People from Springville, Alabama
Category:University of Alabama alumni	
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Category:Non-fiction books
Category:Filmmakers
Category:Screenwriters