David Weiner was born in San Antonio, Texas, to a Polish-Jewish immigrant father and a Mexican-American mother who converted to Judaism. He graduated with honors from Tulane University with majors in History and Philosophy, and he went on to graduate from St. Mary's University School of Law. Today, he lives with his wife in Dallas, where he is a practicing attorney specializing in civil appeals. David's poetry and other writings have appeared in Moment, the Texas Jewish Post, the San Antonio Express-News, and Texas Lawyer. David's first novel, THE NAME OF HIS FATHERS, is the story of a young Jewish man from Texas, Eric Jacobs, moves toward Orthodox belief and practice while at college in New Orleans. Eric's father, Alan, is a no-nonsense lawyer who fears that this newfound religious outlook threatens Eric's chances for mainstream success. Meanwhile, Eric's explorations stir similar impulses within his mother, Margo, breeding resentment toward Alan and his rigidly businesslike approach to life. As tensions grow within the family, Eric makes an impulsive—and fateful—decision that undermines the family's most basic sense of its own identity. At the other end of the religious spectrum, Simon Belofsky, the dynamic rabbi of the Hasidic campus organization that sparks Eric's change of direction, suffers a profound personal and spiritual crisis that leads him to seek answers in unexpected quarters. THE NAME OF HIS FATHERS is a story about spiritual journeys—beginning them, resisting them, joining them, nurturing and repairing them. And it is about the humor, grace, and good cheer that can be found along the way.