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  2. David Matthews (born November 8, 1967) is an American author and screenwriter. Matthews is of African American and Jewish descent. His memoir Ace of Spades recounts growing up in the inner city of Baltimore, Maryland as a biracial child who could pass for white .

  3. About the author. David Matthews has been a writer, journalist, cultural commentator and documentary-maker for more than 25 years. Having started out as a reporter for Caribbean Times in the 1990s he has written for myriad newspapers and publications, including the OBSERVER, SUNDAY TIMES, GQ and ESQUIRE.

  4. David Matthews has 169 books on Goodreads with 2131 ratings. David Matthewss most popular book is Voices of the Windrush Generation: The real story told...

  5. Feb 7, 2007 · INTERVIEW: David Matthews, author of Ace of Spades. Wednesday, February 7th, 2007. By piper. By Rachel Kramer Bussel. I have to admit that I almost didn’t finish David Matthewss memoir Ace of Spades, about his childhood growing up in Baltimore in the 1960’s and 70’s as the son of a Black Nationalist father and absent Jewish mother.

  6. David Matthews is an award-winning writer and journalist who has written for the Sunday Times, Observer, the Sunday Telegraph, Esquire and the Mail on Sunday. His debut book, Looking for a Fight, was short-listed for the 2001 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and tells of his remarkable journey into the dark h.

  7. Feb 6, 2007 · Ace of Spades is a memoir about the David Matthews' experiences as a "mixed" (white looking) boy and young man in the depressed black neighborhoods of Baltimore. The story is about how he fakes a "Jewish" identity, rather than live as a black boy... an identity he views as the lowest rung on the social totem pole in 1980's America.

  8. David Matthews is the author of 2007 New York Times Editor’s pick Ace of Spades. His work has also appeared in Salon, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, and The Autobiographer’s Handbook: the 826 National Guide to Writing your Memoir.

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