Take Five

David Keith Mano was born in Manhattan, New York on February 13, 1942. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Columbia University in 1963. He received a Kellett Fellowship and attended Clare College, Cambridge. He was an actor with the Marlowe Society. After returning home to help run the family business X-Pando after his father's death, he performed with the National Shakespeare Company.

He became an author and journalist. His first novel, Bishop's Watch, was published in 1968. His other novels included Bishop's Progress, Horn, War Is Heaven!, The Death and Life of Harry Goth, The Proselytizer, The Bridge, Take Five, and Topless. His articles appeared in Playboy, Esquire, Oui, People, and The New York Times Book Review. In 1984, he wrote the play Resistance, which was produced Off Broadway in 1988. He later wrote episodes for the television series including St. Elsewhere, L.A. Law, and Homicide: Life on the Street. He died from complications of Parkinson's disease on September 14, 2016 at the age of 74.

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