Birthplace: Independence, MO
Current Residence: Virginia
Education: Sonoma State University, B.A., 1968; M.A., 1969 Lincoln Memorial University, Doc. Hum. Let., 1976
Profession: 2000 to present: Director of Programs for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. 1990 to 2000: writer and consultant. 1970 to 1990: editorial manager in magazine and book publishing.
Influences, Interests and Interesting Tidbits: Davis has written or edited more than forty books having to do with the Civil War and Southern History. He has worked with the BBC, Public Television and commercial TV. Davis was a senior consultant for the Arts and Entertainment Network/History Channel series, Civil War Journal. He has been nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize in history.

No other writer has described the death agonies of the lost cause with more authority?
-Ernest B. Furgurson, The Washington Post

?Politics is not just something that happens in marbled halls in sessions of Congress, but that even amid disaster, men are still different groups working for different aims. All of them thought they had the best interests of the South at heart; and the same thing, of course, was happening on the Northern side, the judgments and actions were political above all.
-William C. Davis, HBC Interview

The latest book by Davis, a fine and prolific author on many Confederate topics, is as dramatic as his story of the Confederacy's establishment, A Government of Our Own(1994).
-Gilbert Taylor, Booklist