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David Isaac Maldonado (Born January 29, 1972) is an American author and poet. His distinctive writing style can be characterized by his past hardships and his concerns of society. He started producing his work in 2009 after he lost his career as a bank manager and lost his home and personal possessions due to the lack of income. Maldonado’s fiction is a deep sociological look into people and their trials. His goal is to inspire thought and understanding of others not just tolerance. As of 2010, he has published three novels (Revenge, The Stain and Apparition) and two short stories ( Evolutionary Short Stories and ESS the Final Stories) all his work is fiction. Maldonado and his wife, Christine, have two children, Isaac and Nathan. Isaac is working on getting a children’s book published that he wrote when he was age 7. Early life Maldonado’s father, Rene A Maldonado, who was born March 3, 1931 in the country of El Salvador, He moved to the United States in 1969 to make a better life for his family. A once small business owner had to find a 9 to 5 job to take care of his family. Maldonado’s mother, Alicia D Sierra (July 12, 1934 – March 14, 2004) was born in the country of Guatemala. She like her spouse was once a small business owner but only worked a few months in the U.S. after becoming very ill. They were married February 23, 1952 in Guatemala City David Isaac Maldonado was born January 29, 1972 in Chicago, Illinois. Since Age 2 Maldonado’s Mother was in and out of hospitals due to her illness. He never knew growing up if she would live or die. Education and early career Maldonado attended Our Lady of Mt Carmel in Melrose Park, IL and Holy Cross High School for one year and graduated from East Leyden High School in 1991. After High School he joined, the United States Marines were he served a little over a year, which he was honorably discharged due to a hand injury, which still affects him to this day. Maldonado studied psychology and was aiming at a law degree when he started at Triton College but decided to study insurance and marketing to open his own business. In 1995, he opened his own insurance brokerage firm, Rightway insurance consultants. Which he ran for 4 years until a devastating divorce with his wife ended that part of his life. Maldonado entered into banking management where he stayed until 2008 when trouble brewed in the industry. 2000’s work In 2009, Maldonado's novel Evolutionary Short stories was accepted by the publishing house Authorhouse. Maldonado had written other works that he had thrown in the trash because he was frustrated and felt no one would want to read his work. Soon after the release of Evolutionary Short Stories in 2009 he found himself homeless and had to move in with his father back in his old childhood bedroom Maldonado continued writing and shortly afterwards published Revenge, which was part two of evolutionary short stories. In 2010, he wrote ESS the final Stories, which ended the trilogy. It was late in the year when Maldonado decided to write The Stain and Apparition. His writing style in the last two books changes to a more science fiction and less horror. Isaac David Isaac Maldonado was born David Maldonado. He added the middle name of Isaac as a remembrance of his grandfather and to avoid being confused by the many others named David Maldonado actually just in the white pages there is 441 people with the name of David Maldonado. One of which is a friend of his and a musician.

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