IVOR NOEL HUME was born in London and studied at Framingham College and St. Lawrence College in England. In 1949 he joined the staff of London's Guildhall Museum as an archaeologist. He moved to Colonial Williamsburg as chief archaeologist in 1957 and subsequently became director of their Department of Archaeology. He is an honorary research associate of Smithsonian Institution, fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and past vice-president of the British Society of Post-Medieval Archaeology. Author of fourteen other books, including Here Lies Virginia and Martin's Hundred, and dozens of articles, he was named an Officer of the British Empire in 1992 for contributions to British cultural interests in Virginia. He lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.