David Dempsey (Jan. 9, 1914 - Jan. 13, 1999) was an American writer best remembered for his book reviews and coverage of the publishing industry as a journalist.
Dempsey was born in
Pekin, Illinois.
He married Evangeline Semon and they had a son, Ian. The family lived in
Rye, New York
During World War II Dempsey covered the American landings on four Pacific islands as a Marine Corps combat correspondent.
Dempsey wrote a weekly column, ''In and Out of Books,'' for
The New York Times Book Review
''The New York Times Book Review'' (''NYTBR'') is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times'' in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely rea ...
from 1949 - 1953, and a column on the publishing industry for
The Saturday Review from 1963 to 1970.
Books
Nonfiction
* ''U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima'' (1945)
* ''Uncommon Valor: Marine Divisions in Action'' (1946)
* ''The Way We Die'' (1975)
* ''Psychology and You,'' with
Philip Zimbardo
Philip George Zimbardo (; born March 23, 1933) is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which was later severely criticized for both ethical and scient ...
(1978)
Novels
* ''All That Was Mortal'' (Dutton; 1978)
References
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1914 births
1999 deaths
People from Pekin, Illinois
American male journalists