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David Shapiro is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the borough's Flatbush neighborhood. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he earned a B.A. in English in 1974. He then attended the University of Iowa, where he earned an M.F.A. in creative writing in 1977. Shapiro is the author of several books of poetry, including The Light Holds (1981), The Sorrows of Cold Stone (1986), and The Dead Alive and Busy (1991). He has also written two novels, The Last Happy Occasion (1987) and The Love of Strangers (1996). His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nation, and other publications. Shapiro has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Whiting Writers' Award. He is currently a professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. As of 2021, David Shapiro's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

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On February 16, 2011, Shapiro was found frozen to death in his home. His death certificate states the manner of death was an accident, “due to cold environmental temperatures.” An autopsy was done and determined the cause of death to be “atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and psychiatric illness (type unspecified),” with no further details, although he apparently had a history of erratic behavior and severe psychiatric problems during the last years of his life and, as a result, had been hospitalized several times. At the time his body was discovered, there was no heat in his house and his phone had been turned off.

In 1987 Shapiro moved to Townshend, Vermont, where he taught and played with various musicians of the jazz scene in Vermont and Western Massachusetts, as Attila Zoller, Howard Brofsky, Scott Mullett, Paul Arslanian, Bob Weiner, Jay Messer, Eugene Uman, Draa Hobbs, Claire Arenius, and Tom McClung. With trumpet player Steve Sonntag he led a trio, which became later a sextet. In 1997 they recorded the live album Monk, Duke & Mingus Shapiro also played in recording sessions with Woody Herman (World Class, 1982), Danny D'Imperio (Blues For Philly Joe, 1991), Joshua Breakstone (Evening Star, 1988), Howard Brofsky (73 Down, 2000), and Michael Musillami (Perception, 2000).

Born and raised in Brooklyn, David Shapiro graduated from Brooklyn College in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music. He became a busy New York freelancer, playing regularly with such jazz legends as Woody Herman, Chet Baker, Lee Konitz, Howard McGhee, Mel Lewis and singers Ray Charles, Anita O'Day, and Chris Connor. He performed with Jackie Cain and Roy Kral in the Newport Jazz Festival in Carnegie Hall. He proved his versatility as a member of the house band at Eddie Condon's and the Metropolitan Bopera House.

David "Dave" Shapiro (April 24, 1952 – February 16, 2011) was an American jazz musician. He played double bass.

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