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David Payne (novelist)
American novelist
David Payne is an American novelist and memoirist.[1] He is the author of five novels and a memoir. His first novel won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award.
Early Career and Education
Payne was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and grew up in nearby Henderson, North Carolina. He attended the Phillips Exeter Academy and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 1977 with highest honors in creative writing. After college, he worked as a cabinetmaker and a commercial fisherman in Wanchese, North Carolina and Point Judith, Rhode Island, prior to embarking on his first novel.
Major Publications
Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street
Published by Houghton Mifflin in 1984, Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street tells the story of an orphaned Taoist monk, Sun I—love child of a Chinese mother and a WWII American combat ace in China with the storied Flying Tigers. Sun I grows up in remote Sichuan Province and sets out for New York in search of his father, scion of a fa
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Professor Sir David Payne
About
Prof D. N. Payne is an internationally distinguished research pioneer in photonics, having been in the field for over 50 years. Optical fibre technology is one of the greatest scientific successes of the last three decades and Payne’s contributions are acknowledged as seminal in many areas. Optical fibres underpin the internet, provide new laser capability and environmental sensing, and drive growth to the benefit of all nations.
Payne’s work spans many diverse areas of photonics, from telecommunications and optical sensors to nanophotonics and optical materials. As others have noted, with his colleagues he has made many of the key technical achievements in almost every area of optical fibre technologies and his work has had a direct impact on worldwide telecommunications, as well as nearly all fields of optical R&D. As a result, he is the most highly honoured UK scientist in photonics.
David’s pioneering work in fibre fabrication in the 70’s resulted in almost all the special fibres in use today. He led the team that in 1985 fir
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David Payne
Events: 110m hurdles
Height: 6-1
Weight: 178
PRs: 13.02 (2007)
Current Residence: Hampton, Va.
High School: Wyoming (Ohio) HS ‘00
Colleges: University of Cincinnati ‘04
Coach: Maurice Pierce
Agent: Kevin Brown
Club: unattached
Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic Games silver medalist; 2007 World Outdoor bronze medalist; 2007 Pan Am Games silver medalist; 4th at 2007 USA Outdoors
Payne finished fourth in the men's 110m hurdles at the 2007 AT&T USA Outdoor Championships, just one position shy of earning a spot on the Team USA roster for the World Outdoor Championships in Osaka, Japan. He received a phone call on Monday morning, August 27 at 5:30 a.m., telling him that American record holder Dominique Arnold had dropped off the team due to injury, and would he be willing to get on a plane to Japan the next day to compete. Payne arrived in Osaka on that Tuesday evening and competed in the first round the very next day. He made it through the opening round and the semifinals before finishing third for the bronze medal in the final inCopyright ©spyalley.pages.dev 2025