Don Denevi Author & Editor

Don DeNevi has authored more than 30 nonfiction histories and biographies, including his favorite, Junipero Serra—The Franciscan Founder of the California Missions. Faithful Shep is DeNevi's first work of historical fiction. Having retired from the Criminology Department at San Francisco State University where he taught courses on understanding the criminal mind, he returned to work as Supervisor of Recreation at San Quentin State Prison in Northern California’s Marin County. He also served as the prison historian. He now lives in Pebble Beach, California where he continues to write when he isn't playing tennis.