Vivian Lawry has been sailing on the Chesapeake
Bay since 1995, her coauthor even longer. It was on one of their
earlier trips together, anchored in a favorite gunkhole on Swan
Creek, that the plot for Dark Harbor was conceived. Read more
about Vivian Lawry on other pages of this website.
Listen to Vivian's Radio interview with Neal Steele on XTRA 99.1
FM, broadcasting out of Gloucester, VA. (1/11/2010)
Vivian Lawry Playing Air Banjo on
the way down the Sassafras River
W. Lawrence Gulick at the helm
W. Lawrence Gulick has been sailing since he
was nine, and has skippered boats from the waters of New England
to the British Virgin Islands. A merchant mariner and a paratrooper
during WWII, he subsequently earned a doctorate in neuroscience
from Princeton. He's been both a professor and a university
president. When he isn't sailing, he enjoys composing at the
piano and woodworking. Visit his website at darkharbormystery.com.