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David Hanna (born May 27, 1967) is an American author and historian.

Life and Work
David Hanna is the son of American realist painter William David Hanna. Hanna had his first book excerpted in The Atlantic, Knights of the Sea was published in 2012. Based on his experience growing up on the Maine coast, Hanna crafted a story centered around two naval commanders killed in a battle in 1813 fought off Pemaquid Point. As a young boy, Hanna’s family were the last to call the lighthouse keeper’s house, home.(11) The joint burial of the two men was immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, My Lost Youth.(12) In 2016 Hanna’s second book, Rendezvous with Death, named after another famous poem, by Alan Seeger(13), led to a collaboration with filmmakers Darroch Greer(14) & Paul Glenshaw in the making of their documentary film, “The Lafayette Escadrille”.(15) Hanna, whose maternal grandfather John Elco served in France in 1918,(16) has also contributed to the United States World War One Centennial Commission as a publishing partner.

Hanna has been a featured lecturer at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, the Maine Maritime Museum, the Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum in New York, and the American School of Paris.