Douglas Light

Douglas Light [1](born Indianapolis, Indiana) is an award winning American novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer.

He cowrote the screen adaptation (The Trouble with Bliss) of his debut novel debut novel East Fifth Bliss. The film stars Golden Globe winner Michael C. Hall of Dexter fame, Lucy Liu, and Brie Larson. His story collection, Girls in Trouble, received the 2010 AWP Grace Paley Prize [2] for short fiction. It was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2011. Blood Stories was published in March 2015,

The Wobble, his second novel, will be published in Spring 2016.

Background

Light received a 2008 and 2010 JP Morgan Chase/NoMAA Grant for his work. His short stories have appeared in the 2003 O. Henry Prize Stories anthology,[3] the 2003 Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology, failbetter, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Guernica Magazine, Narrative, and other magazines.

He is a founding editor of Epiphany magazine.

He graduated from The City College New York and lives in New York City.

While attending the City College of New York for his MA in Creative Writing, he studied under Frederic Tuten and was award the Goodman Loan Fund Grant Award, the Danielle and Larry Nyman Family Project Award, and the Irwin and Alice Stark Short Fiction Prize for his writing.

He was a finalist for the 2002 James Jones First Novel Fellowship.

His first published short story, "Three Days. A Month. More." received a 2003 O. Henry Award and was selected for inclusion in the 2003 Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology, which was edited by Dave Eggers and Zadie Smith.

East Fifth Bliss was published in the spring of 2007.

Girls in Trouble was released in fall 2011.

Blood Stories was published in Spring 2015.

The Wobble will be published in Spring 2015.

The Trouble with Bliss had a theatrical release in March 2012.

See also

References and notes

  1. ↑ Douglas Light, Author's website
  2. ↑ Grace Paley Prize, Grace Paley Prize for short fiction
  3. ↑ The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories Author Spotlight


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