I have been fascinated by the life and character of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton for many years now, but the spark for The American Icarus came to me late one night while reading a biography. The author was going on about what Hamilton might have thought upon a particular subject--having done this many times before. A thought then formed in my head that has since changed many things:

What if I could just be in Hamilton's head?

Thus began the slow process of attempting to do something never-before done: telling his story through his first-person perspective. As I have dived into the deep ends of research, analyzed aspects of Hamilton's character in building my fictional interpretation, and explored this new territory of storytelling, I have come to deeply love this project and have not looked back since.