David Zane Mairowitz (born 1943 in New York City, United States), is a writer. He has written radio dramas, graphic novels, and nonfiction books & essays.

Mairowitz studied English literature and philosophy at Hunter College, New York; and drama at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 1966 he immigrated to England, where he worked as a freelance writer. He was one of the founding editors of International Times.

Since 1982 he has resided in southern France.^[2]

Works

• The Law Circus (1969), a play.
• BAMN: Outlaw Manifestos and Ephemera 1965–70 (1971), editor with Peter Stansill.
• Flash Gordon and the Angels (1971), a play.
• The Radical Soap Opera: Roots of Failure in the American Left (1974).
• The Stalin Sonata (1989), a radio drama.
• Dictator Gal (broadcast in 1992), a radio drama starring Josette Simon.^[3]
• Kafka for Beginners, also known as Introducing Kafka (1993), illustrated by Robert Crumb.
• Introducing Camus, illustrated by Alain Korkos.
• Graphic novel version of Franz Kafka's The Castle, illustrated by Czech artist and musician Jaromír 99 (Jaromír Švejdík).^[4]
• Love Tunnels: Getting Married in Las Vegas, a radio documentary broadcast in February 2021 on the CBC Radio programme Ideas.^[1]