Schubert was born October 18, 1913,[1] in New York City; the family moved shortly to Detroit.
[2] Despite sympathetic help from Robert Frost and John R. Theobald (1903–1989), Schubert dropped out of Amherst, his focus being entirely on poetry.
[2] Finding work at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Science, Schubert wrote, while studying at CUNY and Columbia University.
[3] David Schubert died of tuberculosis in Central Islip Psychiatric Center, at the age of 33.
[5] After Schubert's death, his former wife spent years piecing his poems together.