David Henry Halford Coventry (born 2 October 1969) was born in Wellington, New Zealand and is an author and musician. His first novel, "The Invisible Mile" (2015), was the winner of the 2016 Hubert Church Award for Fiction,  and finalist for both the Ockham New Zealand Book Award and the Sports Book Awards in the United Kingdom. His work has been compared to Don DeLillo, Toni Morrisson, Thomas Mann.