David Walton (writer)
Encyclopedia
Life
He teaches at the University of PittsburghUniversity of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...
in Oakland.
He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
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Review
There's a certain uncanny elegance to RIDE (Carnegie Mellon University, paper, $15.95), David Walton's first novel. A writing teacher at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of two short-story collections, Walton does a remarkable job of keeping his prose refreshingly free of bells, whistles and M.F.A.-program sterility while maintaining real emotional tension throughout.