Milton H Marquis is a Professor Emeritus at Florida State University and a former Senior Economist in the Federal Reserve System. He has spent 35 years working in higher education and as a professional economist.

Professor Marquis received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, and an MA and PhD in Economics from Indiana University. His initial employment was as a Project Engineer for American Electric Power Service Corporation, working out of Canton, Ohio. After completing his military obligation with the Army Reserves, he returned to graduate school, completing his PhD with a concentration in Macroeconomics and Monetary Theory & Policy. Upon graduation, he initially taught economics at St Olaf College in Northfield, MN, before joining the Economics faculty at Florida State University.

Over the next three-plus decades, he spent five years on academic leave working at the Federal Reserve, first as a staff Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC, followed by an extended period as a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Professor Marquis has been a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Japan in Tokyo, and at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. In addition to his publication of forty refereed articles in professional journals (including the Economic Journal, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking), he has authored four textbooks in monetary theory, money and banking, and cultural economics (published with McGraw-Hill/Irwin, Kendall-Hunt Publishing Co., and West Publishing Co.)

He has traveled widely throughout Europe, North and Central America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. He has enjoyed over thirty years of sailing, cruising the coastal waters from San Francisco Bay through the Panama Canal to the Chesapeake, and throughout the Florida Keys and much of the Bahamas. He currently resides with his wife in Tallahassee, Florida, where he continues to learn from history and write for pleasure.

Memoirs: From Sea to Shining Sea: A Second Sailing.
Historical Fiction: Mary Bentham: Student: 1964-1968; The Exiled Leprechaun and Irish Patriot: A Tale of 19th Century Ireland.
Mystery and Crime: The Artifice of a Lady: A Novel of Redemption; Sublime Tragedy.