David M. Alexander
David M. Alexander, born in 1945 in upstate New York, is a writer of science fiction and mysteries who now lives in Palo Alto, California. He has published mystery novels such as My Real Name Is Lisa and science-fiction and fantasy novels such as Fane and The Chocolate Spy. His latest novel (under the pen name David Grace) is a mystery/thriller, The Eyes Of The Blind. He has also written over half a dozen science-fiction stories for Analog magazine, both by himself and as a collaborator of Hayford Peirce, and has sold stories under his pen name, David Grace, to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
My Real Name Is Lisa was sold for a substantial amount for a two-hour television movie. Production was about to start when problems arose with the cast and work was halted. It has never subsequently been filmed.
Alexander graduated from Stanford University in 1967 with a major in history and a minor in economics, then received a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of California Law School, Boalt Hall, in June 1970, graduating in the top ten percent of his class. He was licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of the State of California in January 1971 and in November 1977 was sworn in by Chief Justice Warren Burger and authorized to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
He is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. A longtime friend of noted science-fiction and fantasy writer Jack Vance, he has had a planet named after him in The Face and a famous law-giver in Night Lamp.