David Van Knapp is the author of two books:

THE TOP 40 DIVIDEND STOCKS FOR 2009: Dividend Investing for the Long Haul (March, 2009). This e-book presents the case for dividend-paying stocks and uses his Easy-Rate™ scoring system to identify the forty best ones. This is the second annual edition of THE TOP 40 DIVIDEND STOCKS. See more information about this book below.

SENSIBLE STOCK INVESTING: How to Pick, Value, and Manage Stocks (March, 2008). The book has a 5-star reader rating on Amazon.com and has been praised in reviews.

Dave’s mission is to help self-directed individual investors profit from the stock market. His books and articles are step-by-step guides, easily understood yet sophisticated in their approach. They are not meant to dazzle. They are meant to inform, educate, and guide. See more information about this book below.

Dave holds an undergraduate degree in physics from Holy Cross College and a JD from Georgetown University Law Center. He received formal business training at Rochester Institute of Technology and at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, one of the world’s leading graduate business schools.

After a corporate career that included positions with profit-and-loss responsibility and business strategy development, Dave has been analyzing and writing about stocks since 2001. Dave and his wife, Sue, divide their time between homes in McKinney, TX, and Canandaigua, NY.