David Owen (born February 14, 1955) is an American journalist and author.
David Owen grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and graduated from The Pembroke-Country Day School in 1973.
Owen has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1991[1] and a contributing editor of Golf Digest since 1995; previously he was a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly and a senior writer for Harper's Magazine.
Owen won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1984 to research and write about standardized testing in the American education system.
[3] Owen lives in Washington, Connecticut with his wife, Ann Hodgman.