Swamp Outlaw: Henry Berry Lowery and His Civil War Gang

David Ball is the award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and playwright whose work has been staged at major theater centers across the country including the Guthrie in Minneapolis, the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, Berkeley Rep, Pittsburgh’s Metro, the Actors Theater of Louisville, Theater de la Jeune Lune, and off-Broadway. At Lawrence, Carnegie Mellon, and Duke Universities he trained actors, directors, and writers who have gone on to win Tony awards, Oscars, and Emmies. His landmark Backwards and Forwards is theater’s best-selling training book. He is also the nation’s most influential jury and trial consultant, and the author of three best-selling trial advocacy books. He served in the Peace Corps (Afghanistan), is trained in science and engineering as well as in literature and theater, his favorite job was as taxi-driver in Connecticut and New York City, his mom was an American antiquities expert, and his Daddy was a Catskill Mountain bootlegger. David Ball lives in Durham, North Carolina.