David Eric Tomlinson was born and raised in Oklahoma, educated in California, and now lives in Texas. His first novel The Midnight Man was listed as a 2017 top crime debut by Austin’s independent bookstore BookPeople, and was shortlisted for both the PEN Southwest Book Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Sergio Troncosco Award For Best Work Of First Fiction. David has participated in Literary Death Match, contributed to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and teaches craft classes for a variety of writing groups in Texas. He lives in Austin.
Books
- THE MIDNIGHT MAN, a novel (Simon & Schuster; January, 2017)
- Read an excerpt of the novel at The Wrath-Bearing Tree
Stories
- The Going-Away Party in Zouch Magazine (December, 2011)
- The Ornithologists’s Last Wish in Phantom Drift (October, 2011)
- Bootstraps (finalist in Glimmertrain fiction open)
- In the Deep End
- Sympathetic Magic
- The Contextual Importance of Eye Contact
Essays
- Keynote Speech: Annual Meeting of the Oklahoma Sociological Association (November, 2015)
- Fight Night in The Morning News (November, 2011)
Reviews / Interviews
- The Dallas Morning News reviews The Midnight Man
- The Oklahoman reviews The Midnight Man
- The Midnight Man listed as one of the top crime debuts of 2017 by Austin’s independent bookstore BookPeople
- The Midnight Man shortlisted for the 2017 PEN Southwest Book Award
- The Midnight Man listed as a finalist for the 2018 Texas Institute of Letters Sergio Troncosco Award For Best Work Of First Fiction
- Mystery People, Austin’s independent crime bookstore, interviews me about The Midnight Man
- The Writers’ League of Texas reviews The Midnight Man
- Simon & Schuster author page
- The Big Thrill magazine feature story and interview about The Midnight Man
- Deborah Kalb asks about the inspirations behind The Midnight Man
- Arc of a Writer interviews me about the process of writing The Midnight Man
- Editor Alan Rinzler asks about the process involved in writing my debut novel The Midnight Man
- Westchester Story Slam Host and Author Jim Breslin Interviews Me About Writing THE MIDNIGHT MAN