David Hays has taught or lectured for half a century at prestigious universities, such as New York University, Columbia, Boston University, Yale, Wesleyan and Harvard. He apprentic...view moreDavid Hays has taught or lectured for half a century at prestigious universities, such as New York University, Columbia, Boston University, Yale, Wesleyan and Harvard. He apprenticed in London for Lawrence Olivier and did the original working drawings for The Mousetrap. He then directed the National Theatre of the Deaf for thirty years. He is the author of Today I Am a Boy and coauthor with his son, Daniel, of The New York Times bestseller My Old Man and the Sea. He lives in Chester, Connecticut.view less