Biography - D. R. Mullins
Born in 1958 in Alexandria, Virginia.

D.R. Mullins grew up in the coal-mining town of Clintwood, Virginia. His grandfather and many of his relatives were coal miners, but D.R. spent enough summers working in the mines to know he didn’t want to follow their path. D.R.' s father was a high school teacher, coach and administrator. For a number of years the family lived in Alexandria and Fairfax, in northern Virginia.