Anderson, D. Brian 1969- (David Brian Anderson)

PERSONAL:

Born January 3, 1969, in NJ. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: University of Texas at Austin, B.J., 1991; University of Houston—Clear Lake, M.A., 1996.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Seabrook, TX. E-mail—banderson369@hotmail.com.

CAREER:

University of Texas at Austin, reporter, entertainment and arts writer, and copy editor of Daily Texan, 1989-91; University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, managing editor of Medical Humanities Review and production editor of Literature and Medicine at Institute for the Medical Humanities, 1993; Tryco Enterprises, Houston, TX, copy editor of Houston Chronicle, 1994-96; Texas A & M University at Galveston, English teacher, 1996-97; Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, technical editor and editor of Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin, 1997-2002; San Jacinto College Central, Pasadena, TX, English teacher, 1999-2004; Texas Southern University, Houston, instructor in developmental English, 2002-04; College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX, assistant professor of English, 2004—. Also taught at San Jacinto College North, 1996-97, and University of Houston—Clear Lake, 1998.

MEMBER:

Titanic Historical Society, Two-Year College English Association-Southwest, Texas Community College Teachers Association, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Tau Delta.

WRITINGS:

The Titanic in Print and on Screen: An Annotated Guide to Books, Films, and Other Media, McFarland (Jefferson, NC), 2005.

The Titanic Joke Book, Lulu.com (Morrisville, NC), 2006.

Contributor to books, including Texas Garden Almanac, edited by Mike Peters, Gulf Publishing, 1997, 1998. Contributor of articles, essays, and reviews to periodicals, including Houston Review, Marrow, Houston Chronicle Texas, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, and Bayousphere.

SIDELIGHTS:

D. Brian Anderson told CA: "I write nonfiction primarily out of an almost irrational need to share my obsessions with readers while organizing information in new ways. My first lengthy article was about the first monorail line in the United States. I spent many months researching and writing this article for a small historical journal, and I earned no money from it. I have been writing short fiction lately and am interested to see where that goes. I do not want to write any more books about Titanic."