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Daniel Depp
Daniel Depp is an author, screen writer, and older brother of actor Johnny Depp.

He was born in eastern Kentucky in 1953, and grew up in Owensboro and Lexington. He began publishing poetry when he was only 12. He majored in Classics, and studied European History at the University of Kentucky, where his thesis was about H G Wells and Edwardian technology. He is married with a son.

He has been a journalist, bookseller, and an English teacher. There have been several exhibitions of his photographs, and he has also taught scriptwriting.

His first full-length screenplay, in 1994, was for The Brave, a film about a destitute Indian offered the chance to star in a snuff movie to earn $50,000 for his family, starring     Johnny Depp and Marlon Brando,which was nominated for a Palme D'Or at Cannes.

He divides his time between California and France, where he writes and produces screenplays.

Loser’s Town is his first novel, first part of a trilogy featuring his hero David Spandau. Babylon Nights, his second novel is due out in April 2010.