{"name": "David Drake", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav, the Blackhorse. He learned new skills, saw interesting sights, and met exotic people who hadn\u2019t run fast enough to get away.\r\n\r\nDave returned to become Chapel Hill\u2019s Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences.\r\n\r\nDave describes war from where he saw it: the loader\u2019s hatch of a tank in Cambodia. His military experience, combined with his formal education in history and Latin, has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy. His bestselling Hammer\u2019s Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF. He often wishes he had a less interesting background.\r\n\r\nDave lives with his family in rural North Carolina.\r\n\r\nhttp://david-drake.com/2011/biographies/"}, "birth_date": "1945", "photos": [7150469], "links": [{"title": "David Drake's Official Web Site", "url": "http://david-drake.com", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "personal_name": "David Drake", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"wikidata": "Q736343", "isni": "0000000114706061", "viaf": "35324058", "musicbrainz": "17ab7edb-f5a9-43c2-8ac0-ae46aa8fa290", "goodreads": "19472", "lc_naf": "n79020960", "librarything": "drakedavid-1", "opac_sbn": "RAVV108378"}, "key": "/authors/OL4740632A", "latest_revision": 10, "revision": 10, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-09-16T12:43:58.932426"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-31T22:44:00.796345"}}