David Angsten

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1 General Information
2 Illinois Connection
3 Biographical and Professional Information
4 Published Works
5 Titles for Purchase and at Your Library
6 Literary Awards
7 Speaking Engagements and Upcoming Appearances
8 External Links
9 Editing

[edit] General Information

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Name: David Angsten

Pen Name: None

Genres: Fiction

Born: in Chicago

Website: http://www.davidangsten.com/

Email: dangsten@yahoo.com

[edit] Illinois Connection

Angsten was born in Chicago and grew up in Hinsdale, Illinois. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

[edit] Biographical and Professional Information

David Angsten was born in Chicago, attended Grinnell College in Iowa and American University in Rome and Paris, and graduated from the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana. He initially worked in Chicago, traveling internationally as a writer-director of videos, documentaries, fiction shorts, and animations. His half-hour drama, "Notes From a Lady at a Dinner Party," was selected for competition at Cannes.

Since 1990, David has lived and worked in Los Angeles as a screenwriter and video director, and is a story analyst and senior editor for Atchity Entertainment International. His debut novel, Dark Gold, from Thomas Dunne Books, was followed in 2008 by Night of the Furies, the second mythic thriller of his "Night-Sea Trilogy."