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David C. Downing
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Downing, David C. 1951-
(David Claude Downing)
PERSONAL: Born January 31, 1951, in New York, NY; son of James W. (an executive) and Morena M. (a homemaker) Downing; married, August 17, 1974, wife's name Crystal. Education: Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, B.A. (summa cum laude), 1973; University of California, Los Angeles, M.A., 1975, Ph.D., 1977.
ADDRESSES: Home—608 Antler Dr., Lewisberry, PA 17339. E-mail—[email protected]; [email protected].
CAREER:University of California, Los Angeles, teaching fellow, 1974–77; Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, assistant professor, 1977–83, associate professor, 1983–89, professor of English, 1989–94; Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA, visiting assistant professor, 1994–97, associate professor, 1997–2001, R.W. Schlosser associate professor, 2001–03, R.W. Schlosser Professor of English, 2003–.
AWARDS, HONORS: Chancellor's Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles, 1973–74; Teacher of the Year, Westmont College, 1980, 1990; book of the year, Mythopoeic Society, 1993, for Planets in Peril; outstanding book rating, American Library Association, 1993, for Planets in Peril.
WRITINGS:
What You Know Might Not Be So, Baker Books (Boston, MA), 1987.
Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C.S. L
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David Downing
British author
For other people with the same name, see David Downing (disambiguation).
David Downing | |
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| Born | (1946-08-09) 9 August 1946 (age 78) London, England |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Genre | Non-fiction, fiction, crime, mystery |
David Downing (born 1946[1]) is a British author of mystery novels and nonfiction. His works have been reviewed by Publishers Weekly,[2][3]The New York Times,[4] and The Wall Street Journal.[5] He is known for his convincing depictions of World War II[6][better source needed] and Berlin.[5] He has written a series of espionage thrillers, based around Anglo-American character John Russell exploring Germany in the 1940s. They are known as "The Station Series" because they are all named after train stations, mostly in Berlin.
Life
[edit]Downing grew up in Harrow, London. He gained a BA in Afro-Asian Studies and an MA in International Relations from the University of Sussex. In 1974 he travelled overland to India via Iran and Afghanistan. He visited the Soviet Union three times. In the late 1980s and early 1990s he was involved in the creation of an environmental centre in north-east London, and visited South a