David W. Porter was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1950. He holds a doctorate degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied literature and language. He has taught in Japan and Egypt, at several American universities, and, for the past twenty-two years, at Southern University, Baton Rouge, where he currently chairs the Department of English. In addition to many articles on Anglo-Latin and on lexicography, David Porter has published three previous books, including (with Anna Grotans) The St Gall Tractate: A Medieval Guide to Rhetorical Syntax, (with Scott Gwara) Anglo-Saxon Conversations: The Colloquies of Ælfric Bata, and Excerptiones de Prisciano: The Source for Ælfric's Latin-Old English Grammar. Additionally, he plays five-string banjo with The Laughing Lizards String Band (laughinglizardsband.com) and builds furniture at Feliciana Chairworks in St Francisville, Louisiana.
