Bio
David Ray Skinner was born and raised in Nashville and has worked as a journalist/writer, cartoonist, songwriter and award-winning graphic designer and illustrator. After relocating to New York City in the late '70s, he served as art director for the international music trade magazine, Record World, and as art director for Doubleday's Literary Guild Magazine. In the '80s, he helped form an advertising, design and print agency in Atlanta and focused on his art and music. His accomplishments include his Civil War concept album, "John Hunt Morgan: A Southern Legend" (which was nominated for Gettysburg College's "Lincoln Prize"), the co-writing of the song, "Return to the Promised Land" with Johnny Cash, being commissioned to create a custom caricature for Elton John and a watercolor painting for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and the design and illustration of a 20'-wide, bas-relief sculpture for the entrance to The University of West Georgia's new football stadium.