John Willingham has been writing about public universities and their honors programs since 2011. He is editor of the website PublicUniversityHonors.Com, and the author of the first edition of A REVIEW OF FIFTY PUBLIC UNIVERSITY HONORS PROGRAMS, published in 2012. The second edition of the REVIEW was published in October 2014. He has a BA with honors, from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MA in history from UT Austin, with minors in education and journalism. From 2011 to 2014, he was a regular contributor to the History News Network (HNN.us), where he wrote extensively about education issues in Texas, especially the controversy over the adoption of textbooks for public schools and the conflicts between UT Austin and the appointees of Gov. Rick Perry. John is also the author of a novel about the Texas Revolution, titled THE EDGE OF FREEDOM, A Fact-Based Novel of the Texas Revolution.