Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland OC OBC is a Canadian novelist and artist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and Generation X. He has published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories, seven nonfiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. A specific feature of Couplands novels is their synthesis of postmodern religion, Web 2.0 technology, human sexuality, and pop culture.

Coupland was born on December 30, 1961 at Royal Canadian Air Force base RCAF Station BadenSoellingen in BadenSllingen, West Germany, the second of four sons to Dr. Douglas Charles Thomas Coupland, a medical officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, and homemaker C. Janet Coupland, a graduate in comparative religion from McGill University. In 1965, the Coupland family relocated to West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where Couplands father opened private family medical practice at the completion of his military tour.

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