Biography
David Axel Kurtz was born in Manhattan.
It was the middle eighties. He lived in the middle eighties. He has misty memories of the boat pond in Central Park.
At the age of two, David's parents absconded with him and set up home in Kennebunkport, Maine.
He often walked home from school alone. Sometimes along the road, sometimes through the woods along the river.
He grew up among books. He read everything he could find. And it ruined him for school for a very long time.
He was among the first kids in Maine to have a computer. Starting in the second grade he would be excused from class to go to the computer lab and teach.
He tried to skip the third grade. He was told to take a state-administered placement test. It said he should be put in the ninth grade.
Without any mechanism for such a leap, the school district kept him where he was. And there he stayed.
As soon as he could, David transferred to private school. There at least he was paying enough to show up very little.
He edited the literary magazine and was poet laureate of the school. He wrote a little. He got through.
At eighteen David went off to a major university. He took senior-level classes. And was bored.
He took a semester off to live and explore and write. Then he went to Hampshire, and taught himself.
In college, David ran this and that, participated here and there, studied one thing and the other, and read and wrote of everything.
He took a BA having taken only 11 classes. He undertook 17 independent studies, taught 3 classes, and completed several senior theses.
Hampshire does not have predetermined majors. When asked if he majored in economics, history, biology, english, polisci, blacksmithing, or academic bureaucracy-
He would answer: yes.
David has completed six novels. On their behalf he has received more than 500 rejection letters from literary agents.
He has applied to nearly one thousand jobs in more than twenty countries. He has interviewed half a hundred times. He's still looking.
David has consulted for numerous nonprofits and startups. He has raised more than $250,000 for his clients and has $5 million in grant applications pending.
His freelance work includes editorial services, ghostwriting, tech support, strategic consultation, and general project management.
One year ago, David moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He works two days a week in exchange for an apartment in a mansion just off Harvard Yard.
Otherwise he consults for his clients, writes his stories, smites his metal, and explores his city.
Last updated 10 April 12.
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