Dave Pelzer
Dave Pelzer is an American author of autobiographical and self-help books, and is a survivor of child abuse. His most famous book is A Child Called “It,” a memoir of the abuse he suffered at the hands of his mother while growing up.
He was born in San Francisco, California, as the second of five boys, to Stephen Joseph Pelzer and Catherine Roerva Christen Pelzer. He grew up in Daly City, California, and between the ages of 4 and 12, his mother horribly abused him, thinking of it as a game....
