* 1964 – David Kohan, American television producer and writer

* 1891 – David Shimoni, Russian-Israeli poet and writer ( d. 1956 )

They were furthered by American Spectator writer David Brock in his 1993 book The Real Anita Hill, though he later recanted the claims he had made, described his book as " character assassination ", and apologized to Hill.

* 1931 – David Kldiashvili, Georgian writer ( b. 1862 )

Judge agreed with the idea, and worked on her with series writer David Felton.

Science-fiction writer David Brin describes cyberpunk as " the finest free promotion campaign ever waged on behalf of science fiction.

In 2011 Avatar Press began publishing a comic book Caligula written by horror comic writer David Lapham.

In connection with this interpretation, David and Margaret Leeming describe Genesis 1 as a " demythologized myth ", and John L. McKenzie asserts that the writer of Genesis 1 has " excised the mythical elements " from his creation story.

* 1961 – David Wild, American writer

Sir David Brewster ( 11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868 ) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.

* 1956 – David Shimoni, Israeli poet and writer ( b. 1891 )

David Abercromby was a 17th-century Scottish physician and writer, thought to have died in 1702.

* David Brower ( writer, activist )

* Henry David Thoreau ( writer, philosopher )

* 1962 – David Foster Wallace, American writer ( d. 2008 )

* 1958 – David R. Ross, Scottish historian and writer ( d. 2010 )

The writer David Hatcher Childress authored Lost Continents and the Hollow Earth ( 1998 ) in which he reprinted the stories of Palmer and defended the hollow earth idea based on alleged tunnel systems beneath South America and central Asia.

David Pogue, a technology writer, journalist and commentator, is his great nephew.

* 1950 – David Duke, American politician, writer, activist, and white supremacist

* 1959 – David Shore, Canadian writer

* 1807 – David Strauss, German theologian and writer ( d. 1874 )

* 1817 – Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher ( d. 1862 )

She married fantasy writer David Mason ( 1924-1974 ) in 1956.

In a 2008 story from the Daily Telegraph ( London ), writer David Gritten offered the following observation on " Forever Changes " while discussing a documentary on Love.

* 1917 – David Goodis, American writer ( d. 1967 )

Ron Fimrite, writing in Sports Illustrated ( May 7, 1984, p. 100 ), quoted another writer, Brock Yates, as having once said that this stadium " looks as if whatever war it was a memorial to had been fought within its confines.

* William John Brock ( 1817 – 1863 ), religious writer

In the first two films, former Arms Control and Disarmament Agency member Anne Cahn and former American Spectator writer David Brock accuse the Neo-Conservatives of knowingly using false evidence of wrongdoing in their campaigns against the Soviet Union and President Bill Clinton.

Conceived by car magazine writer and auto racer Brock Yates and fellow Car and Driver editor Steve Smith in 1971, the run was not a real competitive race with high risks, but intended both as a celebration of the United States Interstate Highway System and a protest against strict traffic laws coming into effect at the time.

Tommy Howatt, a writer for the local scandal sheet Tatler, infiltrates the minister's church and proceeds to play one side against the other, eventually framing Brock by revealing to the authorities his plan to raid the brothels, but ultimately saving him by siding with him at his trial.

But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.

Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

I disagree with the writer who says funeral services should be government-controlled.

The letter writer who suggested saving money by taking kids out of school at 14 should have signed his letter `` simpleton '' instead of `` simplicitude ''.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

She was the widow of a writer who had died in an airplane crash, and Mickie had found her a job as head of the historical section of the Treasury.

For some time this writer has been suggesting a Junior Judging Class for Intermediates over 16 and under 20 years of age who are ineligible to compete in the Junior Class.

It was the haunt of writer Ambrose Bierce, who admired its redwoods.

Since the writer had not noticed this characteristic in married students scattered throughout the various sections previous to this experiment, nor, as a matter of fact, in those who were continuing in `` single sections '', he can only conclude that there must have been something `` contagious '' within the specific group which caused this to occur.

That a writer who is gay cannot be serious is a common professional illusion, sedulously fostered by all too many academics who mistakenly believe that their frivolous efforts should be taken seriously because they are expressed with that dreary solemnity which is the only mode of expression their authors are capable of.

We stood under a gigantic tree in the rolling country just outside of Moscow looking at silent flowers on the grave of a Russian poet and writer who cherished the love for his country to the point of foregoing the highest international honor.

Just yesterday we had met and talked with a living writer, a contemporary of the dead poet, who is known for his ability of manipulating his ideas and his craft more advantageously.

What matters is that while Fromm's reading of the data is not the only one possible, it is precisely the one we would expect from a writer who earnestly believes that every man can and ought to be happy and satisfied.

Liston is Bill Liston, baseball writer for the Boston Traveler, who quoted Jensen as saying:

One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.

He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School.

* John W. Campbell, an influential science fiction writer who " shaped the Golden Age of Science Fiction "

Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

However, it is the editor who has " the power to impose the dominant definition of the writer and therefore to delimit the population of those entitled to take part in the struggle to define the writer ".

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.