David Bishop (writer)
New Zealand screenwriter and author
David James Steven Bishop (born 27 September 1966), also known as D. V. Bishop, is a New Zealand comic book editor and writer of comics, novels and screenplays. He lives in the United Kingdom.
In the 1990s he edited the UK comics titles Judge Dredd Megazine (1991–2002) and 2000 AD (1995–2000).
He has since become a prolific screenwriter and novelist, and has won awards for his Cesare Aldo mystery novels which are set in Renaissance Florence.
Biography
Bishop was born in Cambridge, New Zealand and grew up in Auckland. He studied journalism at Auckland Technical Institute (now Auckland University of Technology), and worked as a journalist for the New Zealand Herald. He emigrating to the UK in 1990.
He completed an MA in Screenwriting at Scotland's Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland in 2007. He helped establish the university's MA Creative Writing programme in 2009, which he headed from 2017 to 2022. He remains a creative writing lecturer for the programme.
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