Born and raised in Long Beach, California, David Alan Armstrong received his B.A. in Elementary Education from Brigham Young University and his M.S. in Instructional Design from the University of Southern California. The author spent many years in the cold-war aerospace industry as a programmer, analyst and project manager before moving his family to Utah in 1995 and working for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the information technology department. Now retired, David and his wife Evelyn own plots in the Kaysville City cemetery, so Kaysville is home. The couple raised three children and enjoy five grandchildren. 

An active member of the League of Utah Writers, David has received Gold Quill awards for three non-fiction books, Searching Isaiah:Learning Line Upon Line, Flooding My Life with the Book of Mormon, and A Walk with the Master: One Person's Journey to Christ. He has also received the Silver Quill award for his second novel, The Porch. All are available on Amazon.com and at most other online retailers.