David Wheldon died in January 2021 at the age of seventy. He was born in 1950 in the mining village of Moira, Leicestershire. He graduated in medicine from Bristol University. He was the author of four novels, a short story collection, and several collections of poetry. A short story collection, The Guiltless Bystander, appeared posthumously in 2021. His two early novels were reissued by Valancourt USA in 2024.