Ken Metz is a retired high school science teacher. Upon retirement, he launched a new career as a writer. He has written two historical novels: FOUNDING FATHER and IF THIS BE TREASON. FOUNDING FATHER (published in 2012) revolves around the last year in the life of George Wythe, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a mentor to the young Thomas Jefferson. IF THIS BE TREASON (published in 2017) is set during America’s Revolutionary War and features General George Washington, his spies named the Culper Ring, General Benedict Arnold and his wife Peggy, and the British army’s spymaster, Major John André. Ken has recently finished his first non-fiction, KINDRED SPIRITS – MEN AND WOMEN AHEAD OF THEIR TIME, which introduces to millennials, and others, the innovators of societal change, the vanguards and pioneers of the essential facets of our culture and way of life that have persisted into the present. Chapters on feminism, jazz, baseball, environmentalism, slavery, and more.