Within a couple of years, living with his father, he began robbing pocketbooks, candy stores and department stores. He was on probation before he became a teenager. A series of fortunate events kep him out of prison.

Barely graduating from high school (1987), he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, where he served for close to four years as a millitary policeman. His specialty was K-9 Patrol, and after two years, he became a narcotics cop. He was stationed in Germany for two years and visited six other European countries during his tour. When not enforcing the law, he could be found in Germany--doing stand-up comedy. T.S. Grant entered an Air Force European-wide talent contest in 1989 and won the coveted 1st Place Master of Cermonies award.

Upon his military discharge in 1991, T.S. Grant moved to New York City to try his hand at comedy and acting. That passion was short-lived and made way for his passion for justice. He became a minister in 1993 of a non-denominational church in Manhattan. As a minister, he was able to visit the Philippines, South Africa, Jamaica (West Indies) and many American states.

In 1998, he resigned from the ministry and entered John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.  Majoring in History, he set out to be the first person in his immediate family to graduate from college. During his brief three and a half years in college, he was elected president of his honor society (Phi Eta Sigma), participated in the National Model United Nations conference, and completed an internship on Hillary Clinton's Senatorial Exploratory Committee.

In  2001, he graduated Magna Cum Laude from the City University of New York.

In 2002, he began teaching U.S. History in Baltimore, Maryland. At the end of his second year of teaching in the inner-city, he was offered the job of Assistant Principal. He accepted. It was not long before the New York Times (click to read) contacted him for an interview about the impact of his teaching. He also published his first book that school year, "An Autobiography of an Unknown Man," 1st Ed.  After one year of the assitant principalship, he missed the classroom and returned to teach U.S. Government.

In 2005 and 2006, he began to dabble in writing opinions for the Baltimore Sun. His opinions stuck closely to his craft as a teacher in the article Who Am I to Judge?  and to his frustration as a teacher in the widely read Donning and Doffing BCPSS. 

Now a Mentor Teacher (preparing undergraduate and graduate students attending the University of Maryland), he teaches Advanced Placement (AP) Psychology and Local, State and National Government in Prince George's County, Maryland.  He received his Master of Arts in Teaching degree from Johns Hopkins University (2006) and is currently in a Ph.D. program at an honors university, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), advancing himself as an educator (click here to read about his research interests). In 2008, T.S. published two books--"in other words. . . The U.S. Constitution for Regular Folks" and his first school-based fiction, 8th Grade. He plans on continuing the "Grade" series once he graduates.

T.S. has not forgotten his artistic roots. On Constitution Day (Sept. 17) on five occassions, T.S. Grant has recited the entire U.S. Constitution from memory. Click here to read the article. On September 17, 2007, T.S. took a trip to Philadelphia, the birthplace of the Constitution. On that 220th anniversary of the writing of the document, T.S. appeared at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, to do his, perhaps, last recitation of the United States Constitution.  Click Here to view video! In 2010, a Prince George's County newspaper, interviewed T.S. as a Constitutional expert (he harly thinks of himself as an expert). Click here to read the interview. 

In 2010, T.S. Grant opened a bookstore exclusively selling books of independent authors. Please support the work of independent authors at Whisper Books. 

For the 2011-2012 school year, his goals are to keep his two little boys busy, trying to find time to write articles for the  D.C. Examiner.com (click to review), being selective about his public speeches, and to finish his dissertation.   

T.S. is a husband and father, and his family resides in Bowie, Maryland.

To learn more, purchase a copy of An Autobiography of an Unknown Man.