Douglas Anthony Cooper is a Canadian novelist living in Rome. 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." Background Cooper, born in Toronto, has published three novels—Amnesia, Delirium, and Milrose Munce and the Den of Professional Help—as well as a children's book, Galunker. His second novel, Delirium, is credited with being the first novel serialized online. 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. He studied Latin rhetoric, and was a serious competitive debater in college—he was Canadian National Champion in 1985, and Runner-Up Best Speaker at the 1985 World Championships. His first novel, Amnesia, discusses how myths about classical rhetoric form the basis for memory techniques. Cooper was a Contributing Editor at New York Magazine, where he both wrote and photographed the travel articles. His photography for New York Magazine was the subject of a feature in Photo District News. Cooper's writing and photography have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, 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 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. Publishers Weekly noted that it was "Published to extravagant praise in Canada (with comparisons to Nabokov, Genet, Calvino and Margaret Atwood)." Kirkus Reviews wrote that Amnesia was "more concerned with emotional states than traditional characters, and... reminiscent of, say, Thomas's White Hotel." Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times