Payne, C.D. 1949–

(C. Douglas Payne)

PERSONAL:

Born July 5, 1949, in Akron, OH; son of Herman (a construction worker) and Arlene (a homemaker) Payne; married Joy Stocksdale (an artist), April 28, 1989. Ethnicity: "Mixed European." Education: Harvard University, B.A., 1971. Politics: "None: I'm a democrat." Religion: "Very little." Hobbies and other interests: Woodworking, metal working, the Eyelusion Museum.

ADDRESSES:

Home and office—Sebastopol, CA. Agent—Winifred Golden, Castiglia Literary Agency, 1155 Camino del Mar, Ste. 510, Del Mar, CA 92104.

CAREER:

Writer.

WRITINGS:

Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp (fiction), Aivia (Sebastopol, CA), 1993, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1995.

Civic Beauties: A Musical Novel, Aivia (Sebastopol, CA), 1999.

Frisco Pigeon Mambo (fiction), Aivia (Sebastopol, CA), 2000.

Revolting Youth: The Further Journals of Nick Twisp (fiction), Aivia (Sebastopol, CA), 2000.

Queen of America (drama), Aivia (Sebastopol, CA), 2001.

Cut to the Twisp, Aivia (Sebastopol, CA), 2001.

Young and Revolting: The Continental Journals of Nick Twisp (fiction), Infinity Publishing (West Conshohocken, PA), 2006.

Revoltingly Young: The Journals of Nick Twisp's Younger Brother (fiction), Infinity Publishing (West Conshohocken, PA), 2006.

Payne's fiction has been translated into German, Czech, Hungarian, Serbian, and Croatian.

ADAPTATIONS:

Youth in Revolt was filmed by Brillstein-Grey for a Fox television pilot, 1996, and optioned by Dimension Films as a feature film; it was also broadcast on German radio as a ten-part miniseries in 2000 and staged as a play in San Francisco, California, and other U.S. cities; an unabridged audio-book version was produced by Blackstone Audio. Frisco Pigeon Mambo was being adapted as an animated film for Twentieth Century-Fox.

SIDELIGHTS:

C.D. Payne once told CA: "Having arrived on the scene during the twilight of the comic novel, I've been doing my part to hasten its demise."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Berkeley Express, July, 1995, Glen David Gold, "Twisp's Twists: The Last Adolescent Novel?"

Los Angeles Times Book Review, May 15, 1995, Christ Goodrich, "Being 14 and Coming of Age Were Never This Hilarious," p. E5.

Publishers Weekly, September 25, 2000, review of Frisco Pigeon Mambo.

San Francisco, October, 1999, Josh Emmons, "The Bird Is the Word," p. 51.

ONLINE

C.D. Payne Home Page,http://www.nicktwisp.com (February 23, 2008).