Pseudonym for David William Boutland 11 Dec 1938-b. England, came to Australia 1952 see also pseud Richard Ansvar (non SF) see biog note, port New Worlds, London 108, Jly 1961
"David Boutland (David Rome) is now semi-retired after thirty years of writing scripts for Ozzie TV and has returned to his first love, paperback fiction, submitting short stories to the Dell group of magazines. He has retained his life-long interest in science fiction." Kind regards, David