David Stacton (1923-1968) was born Lionel Kingsley Evans in San Francisco. He attended Stanford University before serving in the Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector during World War II, eventually graduating from the University of California at Berkeley in 1951. Stacton went to Europe after college and ended up staying, in his words, 'because I liked it and because I could not get my books in print in America.' His first novel,
Dolores, was published in England in 1954. Among the wide-ranging historical and biographical novels for which he would become best known are
Remember Me, about Ludwig of Bavaria;
On a Balcony, about Nefertiti and Pharaoh Akhenaten;
Segaki, set in feudal Japan;
A Signal Victory, about the Spanish conquest of the Yucatán;
Old Acquaintance, set at a film festival and telling of the loves of a star resembling Marlene Dietrich; and
People of the Book, set during the Thirty Years' War. In 1968 he moved to Fredensborg, Denmark, but ten days later he was found dead in his new home. He was forty-four years old.
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