David Shafer is a graduate of Harvard and the Columbia Journalism School. He was born and raised in New York City. He has traveled widely and has lived in Dublin and Buenos Aires. He now lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and daughter and son and dog. His debut novel, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, will be published by Mullholland Books/Little, Brown on August 5.

Tentacular Plot?

David Shafer awaited the publication of his first novel. Then Amazon went to war with Shafer’s publisher—or was it, gulp, really after Shafer all along?