About

Luke Pittaway

Luke Pittaway was born in Aylesbury, England, and was raised in Oxfordshire and Yorkshire, and now lives in Ohio, USA.

He is the Copeland Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ohio University and a Justin G. Longenecker Fellow at USASBE. His research focuses on entrepreneurship education and learning, and he has a range of other interests, including entrepreneurial behavior, networking, entrepreneurial failure, business growth, and corporate venturing. In 2018, Dr. Pittaway was nominated and selected to be USASBE’s Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year. He is currently the Director of Innovation at Ohio University’s College of Business (Athens, OH). He was formerly the William A. Freeman Distinguished Chair in Free Enterprise and the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Learning and Leadership at Georgia Southern University, where he managed programs in entrepreneurship until May 2013.

Historical Fiction

Dr. Luke Pittaway has been an academic for 24 years; his PhD is from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and he worked in universities in the UK and the US, founding entrepreneurship programs (Surrey, Lancaster, Sheffield, Georgia Southern University, and Ohio University). He has published 50+ academic papers and chapters on entrepreneurship.  He emigrated to the US (Georgia) in 2008 and lived in Statesboro near Savannah.  When he moved to the US, he became fascinated with the colonial history of North America and the history of Georgia. As he gained knowledge of this history, he was motivated to write about the founding histories of colonial North America in an accessible way that would be appealing to readers of historical fiction. His first book, Yamacraw Bluff, was published in 2025, and his second, Jenkins’ Ear, in 2026.