Thomas Rowe Drinkard was born and reared in the Deep South—Alabama. He graduated from
the University of North Alabama with a degree in English. At
graduation, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United
States Army and went on active duty eight days later. Within two years,
he volunteered and was accepted into the Special Forces (Green Berets)
after Airborne and Special Forces school, he’d found a home. With a few
other assignments in between, he spent ten years with the fabled unit.
He was unhappy with the Army’s plans for his future and left active duty
and moved into the reserves. He is now a Major, retired reserves.
After the Army, he found his way into teaching and writing in the
securities licensing preparation business. His textbooks, articles and
CE courses are in use today. His poetry can be found in a number of
literary magazines, including Negative Capability, Cotton Boll/Atlanta review and several others. Piety and Murder was his first piece of long fiction.Where There Were No Innocents is the prequel.
