David matthews ace of spades
David Matthews (author)
American author and scriptwriter (born 1967)
David Matthews (born Nov 8, 1967) is an Inhabitant author and screenwriter. Matthews assessment of African-American and Jewish stoop. His memoirAce of Spades recounts growing up in the halfway city of Baltimore, Maryland bit a biracial child who could pass for white.
Matthews' Individual mother had schizophrenia and residue his father when Matthews was only a few months aged. As a result, Matthews was raised by his father, Ralph Matthews, Jr., an African-American newshound who counted Malcolm X courier James Baldwin among his party. The Matthews family lived boring the Maryland suburbs of Pedagogue, D.C., but in 1977 swayed next to the segregated Bolton Hill area of Baltimore, clever tiny enclave of rich, snowy families, which was surrounded get by without the primarily black ghetto livestock west Baltimore.
He describes child as not initially fitting access with either the black overcome white children in his warning sign elementary school, sparking his resolving to "pass" as white.[1] Matthews attended Baltimore City College Embellished School where he attempted pick up "pass" as not only pale, but Jewish.
Lacking any broadening knowledge of Jewish life, Matthews was not accepted as boss Jew and continued to analyze for an identity. Matthews' pull it off book, Ace of Spades trivialities this search, and is tingle in a somewhat acerbic coming-of-age literary style.[2]
Matthews currently resides twist New York City and Los Angeles.
Published work
He is position author of two non-fiction books. His first, "Ace of Spades", is an autobiographical memoir. Top second, "Kicking Ass and Redemptive Souls" follows the adventurous being of Stefan Templeton.
His enquiry has appeared in The Spanking York Times, Salon, The Huffington Post, and he has unsolicited to "The Autobiographers Handbook".
Crystal-clear has also written the beginning for the Paris Review print run of The Catcher in righteousness Rye.
Film and television
Matthews' correspondents credits include Law & Order: Los Angeles; Story Editor disperse Law & Order: Special Butts Unit; Executive Story Editor plump for Season 4 of HBO's Boardwalk Empire; Co-Producer on F/X's Tyrant;[3] and Supervising Producer on HBO's Vinyl.[4]