David Mitchell

David Stephen Mitchell (born 12 January 1969) is an English novelist and screenwriter of innovative storytelling. He has published seven novels, two of which, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2012, Cloud Atlas was made into a film and in 2013 a short film, The Voorman Problem, was made from a scene of number9dream.