This may or may not be true but David Shannon was influenced by his family during his childhood. When he was younger he wrote No David! and his mother kept it in her magic closet of stuff.
David Lake - writer - was born in 1929.
David Carpenter - writer - was born in 1941.
David Wills - writer - was born in 1953.
David Berry - writer - was born in 1943.
David Drew - writer - was born in 1930.
David Walsh - writer - was born in 1949.
David Shaw - writer - was born in 1943.
David Shaw - writer - died in 2005.
David Mallet - writer - died in 1765.
David Mallet - writer - was born in 1705.
David McKenna - writer - was born in 1968.
David Thomson - writer - was born in 1914.