More About the Author
Besides writing, Derek P. Gilbert co-hosts P.I.D. Radio with wife, Sharon K. Gilbert. He formerly hosted "The Drive", the #1 rated afternoon talk radio program in mid-Missouri (the stretch of the Show-Me State along Interstate 70 between Saint Louis and Kansas City).
He's a Christian, a husband and father, and an author. He's in his late 40s, prefers glasses to contacts, and sings barbershop, an a cappella style of distinctly American music, most recently with the quartet A Work in Progress in Columbia, MO.
In the 25 years since earning a degree in Economics, Derek has worked as a Top 40 radio disc jockey (he was once world famous in Peoria), a real estate salesman, the manager of a tuxedo shop, a PA announcer at high school hockey games, and a salesman of steel now in buildings, power plants, and offshore oil rigs all over the world.
Born in Chicago, just a long Ernie Banks homer from Wrigley Field, Derek's radio career took him from Peoria and Chicago in the Midwest, to Philadelphia out east, and then south to Little Rock before finally bringing him back to the Midwest -- first to Saint Louis, an area he loved for its values, cost of living, and most of all, toasted ravioli, and finally to the land of his ancestors, Indiana.
For more than twenty years, Derek sang the high tenor part in a series of barbershop quartets. His quartets performed regularly in the Saint Louis area, including a number of appearances on Saint Louis radio and TV.
Derek's interests include reading, teaching Christian apologetics, rooting for the Cubs, unraveling conspiracy theories, scratching Sam T. Dachshund, the family dog, and letting daughter Nicole beat him on the GameCube.
Despite being out of the public eye, now that he's hung up his headphones, bowties, and striped vest, Derek is enjoying life more than ever as husband and father to the two most beautiful, intelligent, and talented women on Earth.
Derek has always been fascinated by the way things work and how things got to be the way they are. It was his study of evidence for the authenticity of the New Testament documents that awakened him to the battle raging around us.
It is this battle that inspires his writing.
Email Derek at derekpaulgilbert at gmail dot com.
