David Roosevelt Bunch was born in 1925 in Lowry City, MO. He received a BS degree from Central Missouri State University, and an MA in English from Washington University, St. Louis. Bunch is the author of over 200 stories and poems prior to 1957, when he published his first science fiction story, Routine Emergency. He is categorized as an American proponent of the New Wave subgenre. Bunch published over 75 science fiction stories from 1957-1997, of which some 40 were collected into anthologies. Bunch was included in Harlan Ellison’s Dangerous Visions . Bunch was nominated for a Philip K. Dick award in 1993, for a Promethean Lamp poetry award in 1966, and won first prize for long poems in the Scimitar and Song Awards for 1969. He died May 29, 2000 in St. Louis, MO.
From the guide to the Inventory of the David Bunch Collection: Sci Fi MSS 00180., ca. 1973, (Cushing Memorial Library)
