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Where I went to school: University of Southern California, Universita per Stranieri di Perugia, and DePaul University.

Where I live: Portland, Oregon.
   
Some of the newspapers and magazines that have published my work: The Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Oregonian, San Jose Mercury News, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Tennis, The Faster Times.

My favorite novel about 20th century America: All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren.

My favorite nonfiction book about 20th century America: Boss, by Mike Royko.

Some of my favorite American writers whose best work still might be ahead of them: Richard Russo, Nicole Krauss, Mark Kriegel, Laura Hillenbrand.

The best writer I know personally: My wife.

The best writer I’d like to know personally: Barack Obama. (I could offer up some non-writing advice.)

Universally acclaimed modern classics I didn’t like: The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. (I tried and gave up on both of these books, twice each. What’s wrong with me?)

TV series I can watch over and over: The Sopranos, Freaks and Geeks, The Bob Newhart Show.

What I’m writing now: A biography of Eliot Ness. (Forget everything you thought you knew about the legendary leader of the Untouchables. The real story is better.)

Pet peeve: That the house in which I grew up has not been turned into a museum in my honor.

If you must know more...

You can contact Doug at doug.perry@hotmail.com

You can contact Doug's literary agent, Jim Donovan, at jdliterary@sbcglobal.net