David Wellington | |
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Born | David Wellington 1971 (age 45–46) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Occupation | author |
Genre | horror |
Notable works | Monster Island |
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David Wellington (born 1971) is an American writer of horror fiction, best known for his Zombie trilogy. He also writes science fiction as D. Nolan Clark.
Wellington was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Syracuse University and received an MFA in creative writing from Penn State. He also holds a master's degree in Library Science from the Pratt Institute. He now lives in New York City.
He made his debut as a comic book writer on Marvel Zombies Return: Iron Man.
The Monster novels involve a global zombie apocalypse and describe how humanity has been reduced to tiny pockets of existence.
Wellington's vampire novels follow a Pennsylvania state trooper battling a centuries-old vampire.
Wellington's werewolf novels are set in remote Arctic Canada. The series follows werewolves who are being hunted to extinction by humans.
Plague Zone is a zombie novel set in the state of Washington. It is completed in serial online, but not yet published in print.
The first novel, Forsaken Skies, was reviewed by Kirkus as containing "the usual complications, heroics, and surprises (...), all professionally packaged and produced and entirely unmemorable".