W.R. Bailey has had a decades-long interest in African and African-American history. Into the Light distills the current movement to celebrate the African Century and the achievements of Africans and African-Americans. The author is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the University of San Francisco, School of Law. He is a member of the American Historical Association (AHA) and has participated in the AHA on-line community focusing on a new field, computational history. Computational history makes use of lessons from our digital age and does not take the nineteenth century view that history is simple or inevitable, but the product of complex mixing of communities and cultures. Bailey grew up in a San Francisco Bay Area aerospace family in a culture focused on lively political discussion, jazz music, outdoor sports, and digital technology. His background, which includes law and engineering, dovetails with this emerging new framework. The author’s website, “The Computational Age,” focuses on the rise of a network-centric view of history and culture. Bailey’s published articles have covered current affairs, history, and natural resources. The author enjoys reading, spending time in the mountains, outdoor sports, friends, his cat, and any good chat.