My name is David Harris Griffith.

I was born in 1965.

My mother, Mary Jane Griffith , was an artist. My father, Richard Marion Griffith, was a distinguished Psychologist.

My father died while I was very young.

I went to a fairly exclusive private school from kindergarten to ninth grade. I was the weird little outcast kid. I wanted to be one of the insiders.

I went to public high school.

I had three truly outstanding teachers in my ten years at an expensive private school, and four truly outstanding teachers in my three years in public school. I think this says something.

I never particularly cared about grades; they never seemed all that relevant... I got very cocky by my senior year of high school, when I failed graphic arts and breezed through calculus. (It took several years for the lesson to sink in, but I learned more by failing graphic arts than I did sailing through calculus.)

I hit college with the absolute conviction that I could succeed at whatever I wanted to without really trying. I was wrong (not about whether I could succeed at anything, but about the amount of effort it required.) Due to this attitude, I went into the Electrical engineering program at the University of Kentucky with an academic scholarship,  but was on academic probation by the end of my first year.

This was enough of a slap in the face to make me wake up and realize that I had to do some work now and then.

This was also about the time I realized I didn't want to be an engineer. I stayed in the college of engineering but started taking whatever courses interested me. Photography, writing, and theatre featured prominently in my self directed curriculum. It was also around this time that  I realized I was learning as much about writing in my photography classes as I was in my writing classes. I came to the conclusion that everything effects everything else, and I became a dedicated generalist.

I graduated with a respectable GPA and a BA in English. I had more than enough hours for a minor in photography, but UK did not offer a minor in photography at the time.

After I got my BA I decided to take a semester off before going back to get my masters. That was some time ago. Since then my education has continued, but has been mostly self directed. (I did go back and take a few semesters of psychology classes.)

Employment wise, other than selling my fiction, I can't think of anything that would be a better deal than what I've got now. I work short hours for good pay and great benefits. I can think of jobs that would be more fulfilling (teaching for example.) I can think of jobs that would be more profitable (a whole host of things, really.) But I have yet to think of another job that would allow me as much leeway to pursue the things I want to be doing, and in my opinion work is what I have to do so I can do the things that make me me. And those things are what I've been doing for a long time now, and those are the things I describe in the rest of my pages... writing, martial arts, photography, and music.

If you would like to contact me, Davidharrisgriffith@gmail.com would be a good way to do it.