David Bartlett Rees (8 May 1936 – 22 May 1993)[1] was an English author, lecturer and reviewer, known especially for children's and young adult fiction.
For The Exeter Blitz he won the 1978 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.
Quintin's Man (1976) and In the Tent (1979) were the first teen books in the UK to have gay central characters.
Baroness Knight of Collingtree said that it "explicitly described homosexual intercourse and, indeed, glorified it, encouraging youngsters to believe that it was better than any other sexual way of life.
"[5] Rees published two collections of essays on contemporary writers of fiction for children and young adults: The Marble in the Water (1980) and Painted Desert, Green Shade (1984).