David Zimmerman is an American author. His debut novel, The Sandbox, about an American soldier stationed in Iraq, was published in 2010. His work has been reviewed by LA Times as an "adroit" depiction of conditions for soldiers in Iraq and New York Times. His work has been discussed in The Dallas News, has received a starred review from Publishers Weekly

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, and was reviewed by Booklist

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as a portrayal of "both the eternal verities of war as well as the stark differences that each war imposes on the young who do the fighting".