David Stick

David Stick is a writer and a historian of the North Carolina coast. He was born in 1919 in Interlaken, N.J., but went to college at the University of North Carolina. It was there that he found his true calling--and his subject. Stick has lived in North Carolina since he left the U.S. Marine Corps in 1947. Stick's first book was Fabulous Dare: The Story of Dare County, Past and Present, published in 1949. Other works include Dare County: A History and Bald Head: A History of Smith Island and Cape Fear. Stick, who has three children, has also been a real estate broker, a correspondent, a member of the Outer Banks Chamber of Commerce and the mayor of Southern Shores, N.C.