Background
David Anthony Durham was born on March 23, 1969, in New York City, New York; the child of parents of Caribbean ancestry, he has lived in Scotland for a number of years and grew up in Maryland.
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David Anthony Durham
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David Anthony Durham
1000 Hilltop Cir, Baltimore, MD 21250, United States
In 1992, David received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Maryland in Baltimore County.
College Park, MD 20742, United States
David received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Maryland in College Park, in 1995.
(This epic retelling of the legendary Carthaginian militar...)
This epic retelling of the legendary Carthaginian military leader’s assault on the Roman empire begins in Ancient Spain, where Hannibal Barca sets out with tens of thousands of soldiers and 30 elephants. After conquering the Roman city of Saguntum, Hannibal wages his campaign through the outposts of the empire, shrewdly befriending peoples disillusioned by Rome and, with dazzling tactics, outwitting the opponents who believe the land route he has chosen is impossible. Yet Hannibal’s armies must take brutal losses as they pass through the Pyrenees mountains, forge the Rhone river, and make a winter crossing of the Alps before descending to the great tests at Cannae and Rome itself.
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2005
(Born into generations of prosperity, the four royal child...)
Born into generations of prosperity, the four royal children of the Akaran dynasty know little of the world outside their opulent island paradise. But when an assassin strikes at the heart of their power, their lives are changed forever.
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2007
(David Anthony Durham’s gripping Acacia Trilogy continues ...)
David Anthony Durham’s gripping Acacia Trilogy continues with an epic novel where loyalties are tested, new worlds are discovered, and battle lines are being drawn. A few years have passed since Queen Corinn has usurped control of the Known World—and she now rules with an iron fist. With plans to expand her empire, she sends her brother, Dariel, on an exploratory mission across the sea to The Other Lands. There, he discovers an alliance of tribes that have no interest in being ruled by Queen Corinn and the Akarans. In fact, Dariel’s arrival ignites a firestorm that once more exposes The Known World to a massive invasion, one unlike anything they have yet faced.
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2009
(With the first two books in the Acacia Trilogy, Acacia an...)
With the first two books in the Acacia Trilogy, Acacia and The Other Lands, David Anthony Durham has created a vast and engrossing canvas of a world in turmoil, where the surviving children of a royal dynasty are on a quest to realize their fates—and perhaps right ancient wrongs once and for all. As The Sacred Band begins, one of them, Queen Corinn, bestrides the world as a result of her mastery of spells found in the ancient Book of Elenet. Her younger brother, Dariel, has been sent on a perilous misÂsion to the Other Lands, while her sister, Mena, travels to the far north to confront an invasion of the feared race of the Auldek. Their separate trajectories will converge in a series of world-shaping, earth-shattering battles, all renÂdered with vividly imagined detail and in heroic scale.
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2011
(Featuring original work by writers such as Cherie Priest,...)
Featuring original work by writers such as Cherie Priest, author of the bestselling Boneshaker; Paul Cornell, Hugo–nominated comic book and Doctor Who writer; David Anthony Durham, winner of 2009's John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer; and many others, Fort Freak is one of the strongest offerings yet in the ongoing Wild Cards project.
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2011
(Features original fiction by Carrie Vaughn, Ian Tregillis...)
Features original fiction by Carrie Vaughn, Ian Tregillis, David Anthony Durham, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Mary Anne Mohanraj, David D. Levine, Michael Cassutt, and Walter John Williams.
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2014
(Features the writing talents of Melinda M. Snodgrass, Joh...)
Features the writing talents of Melinda M. Snodgrass, John Jos. Miller, David Anthony Durham, Caroline Spector, Stephen Leigh, and Ian Tregillis.
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2016
(From the author of the widely praised Pride of Carthage, ...)
From the author of the widely praised Pride of Carthage, the superb fictional rendering of Hannibal’s epic military campaigns against Carthage’s archenemy Rome, comes the perfect follow-up: an equally superb novel of the legendary gladiator Spartacus and the vast slave revolt he led that came ever so close to bringing Rome, with its supposedly invincible legions, to its knees.
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2016
(Texas Hold'em features the writing talents of David Antho...)
Texas Hold'em features the writing talents of David Anthony Durham (Acacia Trilogy), Max Gladstone (the Craft Sequence), Victor Milan (Dinosaur Lords series), Diana Rowland (Kara Gillian and White Trash Zombie series), Walton Simons, Caroline Spector and William F. Wu.
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2018
David Anthony Durham was born on March 23, 1969, in New York City, New York; the child of parents of Caribbean ancestry, he has lived in Scotland for a number of years and grew up in Maryland.
In 1992, David received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Maryland in Baltimore County, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Maryland in College Park, in 1995.
David Anthony Durham began writing seriously while an undergraduate on a Creative Arts Scholarship at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
In 1994 David wrote his first two novels during the program, Cicada and August Fury, both of which deal with contemporary issues within African-American families. These two novels are unpublished. Shortly after his graduation in 1996, he moved to the United Kingdom, where he published two short stories, One Room Like a Cave in Staple: New Writing, 1998 and The She-Ape and the Occasional Idealist in QWF, June/July 2000. He received the equivalent of about fifteen dollars each for these gems.
In 1999, while living in France, David embarked on a new project, Gabriel's Story, an historical novel set in the American West, featuring black homesteaders and cowboys. David followed Gabriel's Story with Walk Through Darkness in 2002. In July 2003, he taught the Advanced Novel Workshop at the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation's Writer's Week, and in the fall of 2003 he was the Distinguished Visiting Writer at California State University, Fresno.
He published his third novel, Pride of Carthage, in January 2005. It was published in the British Commonwealth by Transworld and in Italian by Piemme, in Polish by Rebis, in Portuguese by Editora Bertrand, in Romanian by RAO Publishing Group, in Russian by Eskmo, in Spanish by Ediciones B, in Swedish by Norstedts. David's fourth novel, Acacia: The War With The Mein (June 2007), is a work of epic fantasy set in an alternative world. It's also being published in the United Kingdom by Transworld, in French by Le Pre Aux Clercs, in German by Blanvalet, in Italian by Piemme, in Polish by Mag Jacek Rodek, in Russian by Recliff Holdings Ltd, in Spanish by Ediciones B, and in Swedish by Norstedts. Audio version from Tantor Media - with the golden voiced Dick Hill narrating.
His fifth novel, Acacia: The Other Lands (September 2009), continues the Acacia series. It's also published in the United Kingdom by Transworld, in French by Le Pre Aux Clercs, in German by Blanvalet and in Portuguese by Saida de Emergencia. Audio version from Tantor Media. His sixth novel - the concluding volume of the Acacia trilogy - is Acacia: The Sacred Band (January 2012). It's published in French by Le Pre Aux Clercs, in German by Blanvalet, and in Portuguese by Saida de Emergencia.
David has written for George RR Martin's Wild Cards series of collaborative novels. His multi-part stories appear in Fort Freak (Tor, 2011), Lowball (2014) and in High Stakes (Tor, 2016). David's seventh book, The Risen, is a historical novel about the Spartacus slave rebellion against the Roman Republic.
He currently teaches Popular Fiction at the Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA Program. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the MFA program of California State University, Fresno, the MacLean Distinguished Visiting Writer at The Colorado College, and he's taught at Hampshire College, the University of Maryland and the University of Massachusetts.
(From the author of the widely praised Pride of Carthage, ...)
2016(With the first two books in the Acacia Trilogy, Acacia an...)
2011(Texas Hold'em features the writing talents of David Antho...)
2018(Featuring original work by writers such as Cherie Priest,...)
2011(This epic retelling of the legendary Carthaginian militar...)
2005(David Anthony Durham’s gripping Acacia Trilogy continues ...)
2009(Born into generations of prosperity, the four royal child...)
2007(Features original fiction by Carrie Vaughn, Ian Tregillis...)
2014(Includes All the Girls Love Michael Stein by David Anthon...)
2013(Includes All In a Night’s Work by David Anthony Durham)
2015(Features the writing talents of Melinda M. Snodgrass, Joh...)
2016David Anthony Durham lived and traveled in the Caribbean, Central America, and Europe. One of his great loves is whitewater kayaking.
Quotes from others about the person
"David Anthony Durham has serious chops. I can’t wait to read whatever he writes next." - George R. R. Martin
On October 27, 1997, Durham married Gudrun Celia Johnston. They have two children, Maya Calypso and Sage Anthony.