David Connell

David Connell was born in Massachusetts three years before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and celebrated V-J Day three weeks before entering the second grade. He attended public schools, graduating from Natick High School in 1956. He enrolledat Colgate University, where he majored in philosophy and football, and graduated in 1960 with a BA but without distinction. As a hedge against a career in sales, he joined the US Marine Corps' officer training program, and upon graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant.

In 1963, following his release from active duty, he entered the Pratt Institute School of Architecture in Brooklyn, where he earned his BArch in 1968. Married by then with two children, he moved to Connecticut to work with Warren Platner, a well-known interior architect and furniture designer. After over fifty years in the practice, he retired from architecture in 2020 to pursue other interests. These have included teaching himself the elements of poetry, writing doggerel that purports to be poetry (unpublished), and analyzing the work of other poets, mostly modernists (also unpublished).

Mr. Connell has three grown children and four grandchildren; he enjoys choral music and sings tenor with a local soprano, alto, tenor, and bass (SATB) group. A widower, he lives alone with his current dog, Alfred, on the Connecticut shoreline, east of New Haven, from where he can see Long Island.

August Greenleaf's Last 7,000 Days, coauthored with Stuart Greenblatt, is his first novel.