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David Stephen Mitchell (born 12 January 1969) is an English novelist, television writer, and screenwriter. He has written nine novels, two of which, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), were shortlisted for the Booker Prize .
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is an historical fiction novel by British author David Mitchell published by Sceptre in 2010. [1] It is set during the Dutch trading concession with Japan in the late 18th century, during the period of Japanese history known as Sakoku.
David Mitchell (Royal Navy officer) (c. 1642–1710), Scottish admiral; David B. Mitchell (police officer) (born 1950), American police chief from Maryland and Delaware; David J. Mitchell (born 1954), Canadian historian; David Scott Mitchell (1836–1907), Australian founder of the Mitchell Library in Sydney Australia
David James Stuart Mitchell was born in Salisbury on 14 July 1974, [2] [3] the son of hotel managers Kathryn Grey (née Hughes) and Ian Douglas Mitchell. [2] As his mother is Welsh, hailing from Swansea, and his father was born to a family that was originally Scottish, [4] he considers himself British rather than specifically English. [5]
Cloud Atlas, published in 2004, is the third novel by British author David Mitchell.The book combines metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and science fiction, with interconnected nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19th century to the island of Hawaii in a distant post-apocalyptic future.
Stephen Mitchell was the son of David Mitchell, a tutor of philosophy at Worcester College, Oxford, and Barbara Mitchell, a tutor of Latin at St Anne's College, Oxford.He studied literae humaniores at St John's College, Oxford from 1966 to 1970 and then undertook a DPhil on The History and Archaeology of Galatia under the supervision of Ewen Bowie and Eric Gray, which he completed in 1975.
number9dream is the second novel by English author David Mitchell. Set in Japan , the 2001 novel narrates 19-year-old Eiji Miyake's search for his father, whom he has never met. Told in the first person by Eiji, it is a coming of age and perception story that breaks convention by juxtaposing Eiji Miyake's actual journey toward identity and ...
Black Swan Green is a semi-autobiographical novel written by David Mitchell, published in April 2006 in the U.S. and May 2006 in the UK.The bildungsroman's thirteen chapters each represent one month—from January 1982 through January 1983—in the life of 13-year-old Worcestershire boy Jason Taylor.