Christian McBurney

He was raised in Kingston, Rhode Island in a home built in 1809. In high school, he wrote a book on the history of Kingston, which was not a bad effort for a teenager! He graduated from South Kingstown High School in 1977 and from Brown University in 1981. At Brown He wrote a 300-page undergraduate history thesis on colonial South Kingstown planter society. After graduating from New York University School of Law in 1985, He embarked on a career as an attorney. Currently, he is a partner with the law firm of Arent Fox LLP. He lives with his wife, Margaret, in Kensington, Maryland, where they raised three wonderful children, Ryan, Kyle and Victoria. He renewed my interest in history writing by writing the adult version of the history of Kingston, which was published in 2004.

He has written five books on the American Revolutionary War, including Kidnapping the Enemy: The Special Operations to Capture Generals Charles Lee & Richard Prescott. His article in MHQ: The Journal of Military History was nominated by the U.S. Army Historical Foundation as best magazine article for 2017.