Douglas Anthony Cooper

Douglas Anthony Cooper
Born	1960 (age 56–57) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Writer, novelist, journalist
Genre	Fiction, journalism

Douglas Anthony Cooper is a Canadian writer.

Cooper, born in Toronto, has published three novels: Amnesia, Delirium, and Milrose Munce and the Den of Professional Help. His second novel, Delirium, is credited with being the first novel serialized online.

Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times wrote that his "elliptical narrative style recalls works by D. M. Thomas, Paul Auster, Sam Shepard and Vladimir Nabokov."

Cooper has an M.A. in philosophy and completed a year of architecture school. His novels deal with architectural theory, and he has collaborated regularly with architects: notably on new media projects with Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

Cooper's journalism has appeared in the New York Times,Wired, and Food & Wine. He won a National Magazine Award in Canada for a travel essay in Saturday Night. A piece in Travel + Leisure won the Lowell Thomas Gold Medal from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation in 2004, and was collected in The Best American Travel Writing 2004. In 2012, Cooper wrote a series of controversial articles for the Huffington Post, highly critical of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), and in support of the No Kill movement. This work, "PETA's Death Cult," was a finalist for the Canadian Online Publishing Awards, in the category of "Best Online-Only Article or Series of Articles."

Amnesia (1992), Cooper's first novel, was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and longlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. It chronicles the unraveling of a Toronto family, and the amnesiac girl who ruins one of its children, Izzy Darlow.

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