David Adams Richards (born 1950) is a Canadian author.

He was born in Newcastle, New Brunswick and is an author of fiction, stage plays, screenplays and poetry. A graduate of St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, he has been a writer-in-residence at various universities and colleges across Canada.

David Adams Richards has received numerous awards including a Gemini Award for scriptwriting for Small Gifts; the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in the Arts; the Canadian Authors Association Award for his novel "Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace" and the Governor General's Award for the 1988 novel "Nights Below Station Street". He was also a co-winner of the 1999 Giller Prize for "Mercy Among The Children".

Richards is one of only three writers to win both fiction and non-fiction categories of the Governor General's Award. Winning for the novel Nights Below Station Street and the 1998 non-fiction award for Lines on the Water - A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi

Other Works

• For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down - 1992 (Nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• The Bay of Love and Sorrows (2000)
• Hockey Dreams (2001)