The Life of David Gale has Kate Winslet as the main character's defense attorney.
1946 Gladys Schmitt's novel David the King was a richly embellished biography of David's entire life
 Wright has written that the most popular legends about David, including his killing of Goliath, his affair with Bathsheba, and his ruling of a United Kingdom of Israel rather than just Judah, are the creation of those who lived generations after him, in particular those living in the late Persian or Hellenistic periods

