David Bruce Smith

David Bruce Smith is President of David Bruce Smith Publications, LLC. The firm specializes in the writing, editing, and publishing of limited, fine-edition books. During the last half-decade Smith has written about Abraham Lincoln, John Marshall, Tennessee Williams, Charles E. Smith, and Clarice Smith.

In 2014, he founded The Grateful American™ Series, an interactive, multi-media program designed to restore enthusiasm about American history for kids and adults.

The following year he co-founded The Grateful American Book Prize with Dr. Bruce Cole, the former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The annual award will honor a single 7th-9th grade level work culled from fiction, historical fiction, and non-fiction entries.

He is also a member of the boards of The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Hebrew University, Lincoln Cottage, Arena Stage, The Library Advisory Board at the Smithsonian, The History News Network, and President of National Institute of Psychobiology in Jerusalem.