Esther David is an Indian Jewish author and illustrator belonging to the Bene Israel Jewish community of Ahmedabad. Her novels include The Walled City (1997), The Book of Esther (2002), and The Book of Rachel (2006) which received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2010. She has received the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Award, USA, for the study of Indian Jewish cuisine.