David Bowman (December 8, 1957 – February 27, 2012) was an American writer. He published two novels and one book of music criticism before his death in 2012, at age 54. A third novel, Big Bang, was published on January 15, 2019, by Little, Brown and Company. Bowman also wrote for Salon.
His first novel, Let the Dog Drive, was a 1993 New York Times Notable Book. It also won the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers.
Bunny Modern, his second novel, was published in 1998; SPIN called it "lively, whacked-out, [and] often surprisingly moving."
Bowman's only work of nonfiction, This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of the Talking Heads in the 20th Century, about Talking Heads, came out in 2001.
Big Bang, Bowman's posthumous novel, received critical acclaim.