title: David Schickler
text: David Schickler (born July 30, 1969, in Rochester, New York) is an American screenwriter and author, most recently of the memoir The Dark Path, published by Riverhead Books in September 2013. He is the co-creator and an executive producer of the Cinemax television series Banshee, which premiered in 2013. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling short story collection Kissing in Manhattan (2001) and the nationally bestselling novel Sweet and Vicious (2004). He has written original and adapted scripts for Universal, Lions Gate, Sidney Kimmel and Wildwood Films.
  
  His books have been published in nine countries and his stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Travel + Leisure, and Zoetrope: All-Story, as well as on Selected Shorts. His short story "The Smoker" won an O. Henry Award and was optioned by Paramount Pictures.
  
  Schickler graduated from McQuaid Jesuit High School. He received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and Masters from Columbia University. He now lives in Rochester, NY with his wife and children.
  
  Works
  
  Filmography
  
  Television
  
  Creator
  
  Producer
  
  Writer
  
  Bibliography 
   Kissing in Manhattan (short story collection) (2001) 
   Sweet and Vicious (novel) (2004) 
   The Dark Path (memoir) (2013)
  
  References
  
  External links 
  
   David Schickler Home
   
   Banshee
   David Schickler Interview
   Full text of "Fourth Angry Mouse" by David Schickler
   'Banshee,’ Cinemax’s Deliciously Over-the-Top Carnival of Sex and Violence, Is Must-See TV
  
  21st-century American novelists
  American male novelists
  Walsh School of Foreign Service alumni
  Columbia University alumni
  1969 births
  Living people
  American male short story writers
  21st-century American short story writers
  21st-century American male writers