Daniel Foxx is a professor emeritus of history at Ottawa University in Phoenix and has taught at East Carolina University and Glendale Community College. Foxx is the co-author of Nathan Bedford Forrest: In Search of the Enigma, published by Pelican. The biography received the 2008 Arizona Book Award and was a finalist for the 2008 PMA Benjamin Franklin Award. Raised in South Carolina, he and his wife live in Arizona.