P. David Hornik, author of the book Choosing Life in Israel and of close to a thousand published articles, makes his home in Beersheba, Israel. He grew up in upstate New York, where he started writing, rooted for the Boston Celtics, and developed a yen to move halfway across the world. Along with his writing, David is a freelance translator from Hebrew to English, working mostly for Israeli think tanks, and a pretty good self-taught piano player though—not surprisingly—he doesn’t have nearly enough time to put into the musical side of things.
Among his varied interests, David has always loved the thrill of reading great fiction. In fact, as a kid, he filled up about twenty notebooks with Westerns that he scrawled illegibly with a pen. Today David lives in the capital of southern Israel (where it’s too hot) while his three grown kids live a little to the north and west in Tel Aviv (where it’s too humid). David’s rich and varied background in the United States and Israel gives him a steady flow of material that keeps his keyboard clattering.
