Daniel Fitzgerald

Daniel C. Fitzgerald is an American historian who specializes in regional histories.

He is the author of a six volume set, called Ghost Towns of Kansas. The volumes include Ghost Towns of Kansas, Volume One, Volume Two, Volume Three, Ghost Towns of Kansas: A Travelers Guide, Faded Dreams: More Ghost Towns of Kansas, and Ghost Towns of Kansas: 6. The original volume was published when the author was 17 years old and a senior in high school. The final volume was published in 2009.

The series was nominated and won numerous Emmy Awards. One of the towns featured in Ghost Towns of Kansas: Volume Two, Neosho Falls, was the subject of a concept rock album by the rock band Kansas, in 1988. The series also cultivated international attention, especially with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 2008 and 2009.

Fitzgerald is also the author of Sound and Fury: A History of Kansas Tornadoes, 1854-2008. This book, which examined over a hundred significant tornado events in the history of the state, became popular shortly after its release in 2009.

Fitzgerald is a Kansas native. He currently resides in Palm Harbor, Florida. Future releases scheduled for 2010 include the reissue of Ghost Towns of Kansas: Volume One, and a new release on steamboat towns and the Great Depression of 1857.

Additional information on the author can be found at www.danielcfitzgerald.com