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Hal Gershowitz is a retired business executive, former lifelong Republican, and an award-winning novelist. He has published over 600 editorial columns and also writes historical fiction focusing on major events of the 20th and 21st centuries. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland and was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the Catholic Theological Union (CTU), the largest Catholic graduate school of theology in North America.