David graduated from Cambridge with a BA in English and some years later also gained a degree in Law.  He has been a partner at Annette Green Authors' Agency since 2001 and has helped launched the careers of many writers of both fiction and non-fiction.  He has often been invited to speak to classes of MA Creative Writing Students and he contributed a chapter entitled The Literary Agent to the University of Edinburgh's Handbook of Creative Writing.

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He has many years of experience in offering creative editorial advice to authors.

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His favourite writers include Alice Hoffman, Dennis Lehane, James Thurber, George Eliot, Edward Wilson, Natalie Haynes, Elmore Leonard, Paul Auster, Tove Jansson and Ian McEwan.  He is also partial to a bit of poetry from the likes of T S Eliot, Keats, Blake, Plath and Dickinson.  His favourite novel is Eliot's 'The Mill on the Floss'.