David Anthony Durham
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| David Anthony Durham | |
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.jpg/215px-Durham,_David_Anthony_(WFA).jpg) 2007 World Fantasy Convention. |
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| Born | March 23, 1969 New York, NY |
| Occupation | Novelist, Associate Professor |
| Nationality | American |
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- David Durham was also a pseudonym of mystery writer William Edward Vickers.
David Anthony Durham has thus far built his reputation as an historical novelist. His first novel, Gabriel's Story, centered on African American settlers in the American West. Walk Through Darkness followed a runaway slave during the tense times leading up to the American Civil War. Pride of Carthage focussed on Hannibal Barca of Ancient Carthage and his war with the Roman Republic. His novels have twice been New York Times Notable Books, won two awards from the American Library Association, and been translated into eight foreign languages. Gabriel's Story, Walk Through Darkness and Acacia are all in development as a feature film. Durham's most recently released book, Acacia, is an epic fantasy in the vein of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series.
Born in 1969 to parents of Caribbean ancestry, Durham has traveled widely throughout America and Europe and lived, along with his wife and children, in Scotland for a number of years. He has worked as an Outward Bound Instructor, and as a whitewater raft guide and kayak instructor. After receiving an MFA from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1996, he taught at the University of Maryland, University of Massachusetts, and for the Stonecoast MFA Program. He won the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Fiction Award in 1992, the 2002 Legacy Award for Debut Fiction and was a Finalist for the 2006 Legacy Award for Fiction. He was the MacLean Distinguished Visiting Writer at The Colorado College, and he is now an Associate Professor at California State University Fresno.
[edit] Novels
- Gabriel's Story (2001)
- Walk Through Darkness (2002)
- Pride of Carthage (2005)
- Acacia: The War with the Mein (2007)
