He’s reviewed for The Washington Post and The Raleigh News & Observer and has served as a judge for the World Fantasy and Pen/Faulkner Awards.From the author of the widely praised Pride of Carthage, the superb fictional rendering of Hannibal’s epic military campaigns against Carthage’s archenemy Rome, comes the perfect follow-up: an equally superb novel of the legendary gladiator Spartacus and the vast slave revolt he led that came ever so close to bringing Rome, with its supposedly invincible legions, to its knees.

Other short fiction has been anthologized in Unbound, Unfettered, Unfettered II, It’s All Love, and Gumbo: An Anthology of African-American Writing.įour of his novels have been optioned for development as feature films, and he has been a writer/consultant on several TV shows.ĭavid has taught at the University of Maryland, the University of Massachusetts, The Colorado College, for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, Cal State University, and at Hampshire College. His stories have appeared in four of George RR Martin’s Wild Cards novels: Fort Freak, Lowball, High Stakes, Texas Hold ‘Em, and another is forthcoming in Pairing Up. His novels have been published in the UK and in French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. His middle-grade solarpunk fantasy novel, The Shadow Prince, is the first in a series from Tu Books, to be followed by a sequel: The Longest Night in Egypt. He is the author of a trilogy of fantasy novels set in Acacia: The Sacred Band, The Other Lands, and The War With The Mein, as well as the historical novels The Risen, Pride of Carthage, Walk Through Darkness, and Gabriel’s Story.

He grew up mostly in Maryland, but has spent the last twenty years on the move, jumping from East to West Coast to the Rocky Mountains, and back and forth to Scotland and France several times. David Anthony Durham was born in New York City to parents of Caribbean descent.

The risen a novel of spartacus