About the author
George Davis is professor emeritus at the Newark campus of Rutgers University. He has been a writer and editor at the Washington Post, New York Times, Essence, and Black Enterprise.
His first novel, Coming Home (Random House), supplied the story upon which the Academy Award-winning Vietnam War film of the same name, starring Jane Fonda was loosely based. His latest work, The Melting Points is a novel of domestic and geopolitical intrigue. Davis has formed a production company to turn, Branches: From “We Shall Overcome” to “Yes We Can,” his work in progress, into a television series.