David A. Long, a native Philadelphia, is a graduate of Central High, Earlham College and the University of Pennsylvania where he received his Masters Degree in Social Work. After retiring as CEO of the LLB Group, he began his writing career. His first book, Take the Measure of the Man, published in 2002, was the story of Dan Aaron, a refugee from the Holocaust and one of the triad that started cable company Comcast. David and his wife Patty Ann are residents of Foulkeways.