Larry Witham (b. 1952) earned his bachelor’s degree in painting in 1974 at San Jose State University in his native northern California. Although he followed a career in writing and publishing, he has maintained his interest in representational drawing and painting. He has been an award-winning journalist and author in the Washington D.C. area. After leaving the newspaper business in 2003, Witham wrote and edited books. He is the author of 19 books. Four of his latest are on art and art history. His Piero’s Light (2014), on the Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca, was a finalist in the Pen Literary Awards for biography. His most recent work includes a four-part novel series featuring art-crime investigator Julian Peale (see The Haunted Artist, 2025). Witham has also returned to his college-years training as a fine art painter. He is a member of Oil Painters of America and the Portrait Society of America. He and his wife live in West Laurel, Maryland.

Contact by email: larrywitham@gmail.com.