David Small Papers

David Small was born February 16, 1937 in Gardiner, Maine, the son of Harold Raymond and Madelyn Small. He graduated from Carlisle High in 1955 and studied at Hersey Junior College receiving an A.A. in 1957, Boston University in 1958 and Franklin and Marshall College where he received a degree in English Literature in 1960. He taught English in Fleischmanns and Camilus, New York from 1960-62 and did a few months as a radio announcer in Palmyra from 1962-63. Small married and divorced and has two sons, Dennison and David (deceased). Small was an Associate Executive Vice President of the Pennsylvania Medical Society and has taught literature and creative writing at F & M. Almost Famous,1982 was Small's first published book. After the book's publication, Small was the David R. Sokolov fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1982 and then was awarded Guggenheim Fellowship which allowed him to resign from his executive post and devote himself, full-time, to the writing of fiction. He went on to write The River in Winter, 1987;, Alone, 1991 and City at Midnight, 1998. Almost Famous was named as an American Book Awards finalist in 1983.