David Maine

David Maine (born November 28, 1963) is an American novelist.

David Maine was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and grew up in Farmington, Connecticut. Attended Oberlin College (1981–85) and the University of Arizona (1988–91), where he graduated with a Master's of Fine Arts in creative writing.

Maine relocated to Morocco in 1995 and Pakistan in 1998. He left Pakistan in 2008 and moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, where lived until 2012. While in Honolulu he taught at the University of Phoenix, Hawai'i Pacific University and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. In the fall of 2011 he was invited to be the Distinguished Visiting Writer at The University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

In 2012 he moved to western Massachusetts. In the fall of 2013 he began teaching creative writing at Smith College while working full-time in the human services field.

Since 1994 he has been married to novelist Uzma Aslam Khan.

Early short stories appeared in the literary magazines Other Voices (1991), The Beloit Fiction Journal (1991) and West Branch (1993).

Maine's first novel The Preservationist was published by St. Martin's Press in New York City in 2004, Canongate Books UK in 2005 (under the title The Flood) and other publishers around the world. Favorable reviews appeared in The New York Times,Time,The Washington Post, and elsewhere. A retelling of the Biblical tale of Noah, the book trod a fine line between respect and irreverence for the source material. Follow-up novel Fallen (2005 in the US; 2006 in the UK) featured a somewhat darker treatment of the garden of Eden story, featuring Abel and Cain and Adam and Eve. The book's reverse chronology (it begins with Cain as an old man haunted by his brother and unwinds to the moment immediately following Adam and Eve's expulsion) was viewed as gimmicky by some critics, but overall, the book was as favorably received as the first.Janet Maslin of The New York Times stated that "this book's power to rivet the reader approaches the miraculous."Fallen caused the Los Angeles Times to report that "Maine's storytelling is as human as it is divine."

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