David White attended Episcopal High School in Virginia and graduated in 1980. He then attended Vanderbilt University where he graduated from in 1984 with a B.A. in History. He started his sports writing career at Bama Magazine in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1986. He then worked for Carolina Blue Newspaper, a weekly sports publication in which he wrote 8 to 10 features a week and game stories on North Carolina Football and Basketball. After that, he worked for the Durham Morning Herald beginning in the latter half of 1989. In 1990, he returned to Birmingham, AL. and worked for the Birmingham News, the Birmingham Post-Herald and the Over the Mountain Journal, respectively, until 2010. He then started writing a blog after publishing three books. He spends many hours on his blog and has published four books: Leadership Lessons for Life, in 2004: Shorty: A Life in Sports, in 2007: A Man of Character, in 2009: and A Stroke of Genius, in 2010. His first two pieces were non-fiction and his most recent two were fictional. White lives with his wife, Beth, in Birmingham. White is 62 years old and is passionate about his profession.