William Melvin GardnerWilliam Melvin Gardner was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1940 and grew up on his family's farm on Lassiter Mountain. He served in the USAF and then earned a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. He taught gradute and undergraduate psychology courses at Jacksonville State University and conducted research in comparative psychology, learning, sensory disorders, and academic cheating. After retiring, he wrote essays on automotive history and compiled an Encyclopedia of eight-cylinder engine. He is best known for his book Handling Truth: Navigating the Riptides of Rhetoric, Religion, Reason, and Research (2012). He lives with his wife, mystery novelist G. P. Gardner, in a small town on Mobile Bay. Read More Read Less