David A. Fryxell

David A. Fryxell is the former editor-in-chief of Writer's Digest Magazine and Writer's Digest Books and was the Writer's Digest Nonfiction columnist for more than a decade. He's the author of four books of writing instruction, most recently The Bones of Writing and Write Faster, Write Better. He was also the director of the Maui Writers Retreat. In his more than 40-year career, Fryxell has written more than 1,000 magazine and newspaper pieces, for publications including Playboy, Reader's Digest and Travel & Leisure. He's been an editor of TWA Ambassador, Horizon, Pitt and Milwaukee magazines, features and business editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and executive producer of Microsoft's Twin Cities Sidewalk Web site. Most recently he was editor and publisher of Desert Exposure, a regional tabloid magazine, and managing editor of the Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter.