David Galloway (writer)
| David Galloway FRSA |
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|---|---|
| Born | David Darryl Galloway 5 May 1937 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, Curator, Journalist, Professor |
| Nationality | American, German |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University University at Buffalo, The State University of New York |
| Notable works | A Family Album, Melody Jones, Tamsen |
David Darryl Galloway FRSA (born 5 May 1937) is an American novelist, curator, journalist and academic. A graduate of Harvard University, he is the founding curator of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, a longtime contributor to the International Herald Tribune, an emeritus professor at the Ruhr University Bochum and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He currently resides in both France and Germany.
David Galloway was born on 5 May 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1955 he enrolled in Harvard University, where he was mentored by Leonard Bernstein and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. There Galloway met Radcliffe student Sally Gantt, whom he married in 1959, relocating to the University at Buffalo where their son was born two years later.
David Galloway first worked as a publications editor for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Leaving the United States, he taught at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Sussex, freelancing as a journalist for The Daily Telegraph, The Times and The Guardian. In 1967 Galloway returned to the U.S. to assist in founding the New Gallery (later renamed the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland). He then moved to Germany in 1972 after being appointed as chairman of American studies at the newly established Ruhr University Bochum, meanwhile publishing his first novel, Melody Jones, to wide critical acclaim.
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