David Schmahmann
David Schmahmann’s first novel, Empire Settings, published by Plume in 2002, won the SUNY John Gardner Book Award in 2003, and was also the South African Sunday Times Book of the Week. His second novel, Nibble and Kuhn, was published by Academy Chicago in 2009. Born and raised in South Africa, he is a naturalized American citizen, and an attorney who lives and practices in Brookline, Massachusetts.