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David Hill is originally from Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he was raised in a family of carnies, gamblers, hell-raisers and story-tellers. He spent over a decade traveling the United States and Canada as a union organizer before settling down in New York with his wife and three children.
David hosted the Spotify Original podcast Gamblers, and was the weekly NFL handicapping columnist for The New York Times. His work has been featured on This American Life, in Esquire, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and in various other publications in print and across the internet. He serves on the executive board of the National Writers Union and the board of directors for the Sidney Hillman Foundation.
David's first book, "The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Capital of Vice," was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book for 2020, an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review, a best book of 2020 by the Chicago Tribune and GQ, and won the Arkansania Award for Adult Nonfiction.
The NBA player Metta World Peace once described David as an "amazing writer" and "the future."