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Biography

Name: Douglas Coupland
Birth Date: December 30, 1961
Place of Birth: Baden-Sollingen, Germany
Nationality: Canadian
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer, Sculptor, Editor

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Biography of Douglas Coupland
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What started as a handbook to 1990s hip culture written by would-be sculptor Douglas Coupland ended up being a call to arms to a generation that, until he defined it, had gone unnamed, a generation he called Generation X. These 1990's...


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Douglas Coupland Information
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Douglas Coupland (born December 30, 1961) is a Canadian fiction writer as well as a playwright and visual artist. His first book, the 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award,...


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University Wire
INTERVIEW: Douglas Coupland, author
02/04/2000: 1,002 words, approx. 3 pages
University Wire 02-04-2000 (The Daily Cardinal) (U-WIRE) MADISON, Wis. -- Douglas Coupland, best known for defining a generation with his first book, Generation X, has spent the last 10 years revealing the world to itself. Microserfs, Shampoo Planet, Life After God and Girlfriend in...
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The Washington Post
Douglas Coupland, Searching for Salvation in the '70s
04/02/1998: 763 words, approx. 3 pages
GIRLFRIEND IN A COMA By Douglas Coupland ReganBooks/HarperCollins. 284 pp. $24 By Paul Di Filippo, a writer living in Providence, R.I., whose most recent novel is "Fractal Paisleys." Laboring bravely under the weight of early literary fame and pop-culture notoriety, Douglas Coupland has...
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The New York Observer
Generation $$$
11/19/2006: 1,779 words, approx. 6 pages
In 1991, Douglas Coupland wrote the best-selling novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularizing the term, well, Generation X. Gen Xers are roughly defined as those born between 1965 and 1980. At the time of Mr. Coupland’s breakthrough, they were in their early...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by John Fraser
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In the following review, Fraser presents a subjective portrait of Coupland, revealing details of the novelist's biography and relating them to Coupland's fiction.
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Critical Essay by John Burns
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In the following essay, Burns provides a character sketch of Coupland, relating his observations of Coupland's fiction.
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Critical Essay by Will Blythe
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In the following essay, Blythe discusses Generation X, Shampoo Planet, and Life after God, stating that the latter is Coupland's "most accomplished fiction to date."
 
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Girlfriend in a Coma
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The novel Girlfriend in a Coma, by Douglas Coupland, has many themes present, and there are many lessons to be learnt from this novel.


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