John David North

David Stephen Mitchell (born 12 January 1969) is an English novelist, screenwriter, and translator. He has written nine novels, two of which, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written articles for several newspapers, most notably for The Guardian. He has translated books about autism from Japanese to English. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2013.