David Ohle is an American writer, novelist, and a lecturer at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.
In 2002 he began teaching fiction writing and screenwriting as a part-time lecturer at the University of Kansas.
[1] While it remained out of print for over thirty years, his first novel Motorman (initially published in 1972) gathered a quiet cult following,[2][3][4] was circulated through photocopies, and went on to become an influence to a generation of American writers such as Shelley Jackson[5] and Ben Marcus.
[6][7] His subsequent novels The Age of Sinatra (2004), The Pisstown Chaos (2008), The Old Reactor (2013) and The Blast (2014) take place in the same dystopian setting as Motorman.
His own influences include Leonora Carrington, Philip K. Dick, Flann O'Brien, and Raymond Roussel.