David Karp (born 1958) is an active pomologist, traveler and writer, who calls himself a Fruit detective. David is the son of Harvey Karp, a businessman, whose East Hampton home was reputed to be a palace. He was fluent in Latin when he graduated from high school. At 20, while majoring in medieval art studies at Wesleyan University, he published a translation of the 6th-century Latin author Venantius Fortunatus. Karp moved to California in 1999.