Crime writer David Hunt is the pen name of William Bayer, a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University.
Bayer was a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Information Agency where he created many documentaries, two of which received Cine Golden Eagle awards. Mississippi Summer, his feature film, won Best Feature by a Director at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Bayer has written several fiction novels including In Search of a Hero, Switch, Wallflower, Mirror Maze, and Peregrine, which won the Edgar Award for Best Novel. He has also authored Breaking Through, Selling Out, Dropping Dead and Other Notes on Film Making, a non-fiction book. After moving to San Francisco, Bayer began writing under David Hunt, his pen name. He has also written The Magician's Tale and Trick of Light.
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