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Abbott, David, 1938-2014

LC control no.nb2004006208
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR6101.B35
Personal name headingAbbott, David, 1938-2014
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Birth date19381011
Death date20140517
Place of birthHammersmith (London, England)
Place of deathLondon (England)
Profession or occupationCopy writers Advertising executives Novelists
Found in"Remember those great Volkswagen ads?", 2000: verso t.p. (David Abbott) jkt. (He was creative director at DDB, before he founded French Gold Abbott, and later Abbott Mead Vickers)
emediaplan.com WWW Site, 31 Dec. 2003 (he was born in 1939)
The upright piano player, 2011: ECIP t.p. (David Abbott) data view (b. Oct. 11, 1938; worked for forty years in the advertising industry as a copywriter and creative director; was a founding partner of Abbott Mead Vickers, the U.K.'s largest advertising agency; This is his first novel)
Telegraph (online), viewed May 21, 2014 (David Abbott; b. David John Abbott, Oct. 11, 1938, Hammersmith, south-west London; d. May 17, 2014; one of Britain's most celebrated advertising executives; widely regarded as the greatest copywriter of his generation; author of the novel The upright piano player (2010))
Associated languageeng