David Boys

David Boyd was a Canadian author, teacher, and playwright known for his historical fiction series on World War II, writing as D.K.R. Boyd for adults and David Boyd for children and young adults. He taught English and Media at Appleby College, adapted Shakespeare's Macbeth and Julius Caesar into multimedia events, and had his YA novel Bottom Drawer nominated for a Governor General's Award in 1996. He also wrote dystopian fiction under the pseudonym David Collins and was the brother of economist Dr. Lorraine Eden.