David Boyd Haycock

David Boyd Haycock (born 1968 in Banbury, Oxfordshire) is a British writer of non-fiction. He is the author of Paul Nash (2002), William Stukeley (2002), Mortal Coil (2008) and A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War (2009), a group biography of the artists Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and C.R.W. Nevinson, all of whom were students together at the Slade School of Art in London. He lives in Oxford.

A Crisis of Brilliance was nominated in the "Best Non-Fiction Book" category at the 2010 Writers' Guild of Great Britain awards. An exhibition based on the book opened at Dulwich Picture Gallery in June 2013. His most recent book is I Am Spain: The Spanish Civil War and the Men and Women who went to Fight Fascism (2012).