David Floody

David Floody was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada two blocks from the busy Detroit River, under the arching black shadow of the Ambassador Bridge that that spanned it – connecting two cities, two countries and two cultures. The bridge and the Detroit auto tunnel were his unanticipated routes into the 1960s, the decade whose events and values would forever influence his life and writing.

In July of 1967, when he was twenty-one and working as a janitor to help pay his university tuition, David watched from the six-story high roof of Wyeth Brothers Drugs, near the Windsor shores of the Detroit River, as the fires of racial hatred consumed the Detroit Motor City he knew so well in a five-day race riot. This experience was forever seared into his imagination and became the basis for his two Young Adult novels: The Colour of Pride and its sequel Insect Youth.

David lives and writes in Tofino, British Columbia, in the midst of breathtaking Clayoquot Sound, with the support of his wife, Eileen, his friends and fellow writers in The Clayoquot Writers Group and his cabaret group, Performance Anxiety. David invites you to visit him at www.davidfloody.com.