David Whitley

David Whitley (born 1984^[1]) is a British writer, author of YA/teen fantasy The Midnight Charter and the subsequent two books in the Agora Trilogy. The Midnight Charter was published in August 2009, and was Whitley's debut novel.

Whitley was born in Chester in the North West of England, where he was a pupil at The King's School.^[2] At the age of 17, he entered his first novel for the Kathleen Fiddler Award, and was shortlisted. Still studying for an English degree at Oxford University, he submitted a children's story for the Cheshire Prize for Literature, and, at 20, became their youngest ever winner.^[3]

Method of Writing

Whitley claims he is an obsessive planner, stating that he has "at least ten pages of notes" before he starts, including a plot outline, description of characters and a chapter-by-chapter break down of the book. This means he has a direction, and allows him to invent details and sometimes entirely new characters as he goes along, knowing full well that they will not obstruct the over-all structure of the book.^[4]

Bibliography

Agora trilogy

• The Midnight Charter (2009)
• The Children of the Lost (2010)
• The Canticle of Whispers (2013)

Future books

As of October 2010, Whitley is working on a new novel, set in a modern, war-torn place with a secret even more bizarre than anything he has written so far.^[4]

External links

• David Whitley's Official Website
• Interview With David Whitley

References