About the Author

When author Tom Yancey covered South Florida's Marco Island as a reporter for the Naples Daily News and the Marco Island Eagle, he learned about dolphins from the late Milton Santini, who caught and trained the first "Flipper." Armed with a biology degree, Yancey began reading so he could ask better questions. Reading about and observing dolphins became a habit. After a 30-year career as a journalist in four states, he and his wife Jeanie live in East Tennessee. This is his third book.