J. D. Davies

J. D. Davies was born in Wales and now lives in Bedfordshire where he teaches part-time at Bedford Modern. He is the foremost expert on the seventeenth-century navy and wrote a nonfiction book, Pepy's Navy, for Seaforth Publishing. More recently, he completed Gentleman Captain, the first in The Journals of Matthew Quinton trilogy of fiction books for Old Street Publishing. The author recently won the Samuel Pepys award for his last nonfiction book, Pepys's Navy (apparently it was a unanimous vote by the panel, which included Claire Tomalin and Sir Keith Thomas).