Douglas Messerli was born on May 30,1947 and is an American writer, professor, and publisher based in Los Angeles, California.
10 Facts About Douglas Messerli
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Douglas Messerli has taught at Temple University in Philadelphia, and Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.
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Douglas Messerli's father, a former coach, was the superintendent of the public schools, and his mother, a former schoolteacher, was a home-bound housewife.
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Douglas Messerli concentrated on fiction until he met critic and teacher Marjorie Perloff, whose influence shifted his interests to poetry.
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Douglas Messerli began writing poetry himself, and in 1979 published Dinner on the Lawn.
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Meanwhile, Douglas Messerli returned to his first love, writing shorter and longer plays, including Silence All Round Marked: An Historical Play in Hysteria Writ, The Confirmation, and A Dog Tries to Kiss the Sky: Six Short Plays.
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Douglas Messerli uses several pseudonyms and personas to explore, through various forms of writing, the multitude of selves within any one being.
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Douglas Messerli was awarded the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artist award.
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Douglas Messerli has received numerous other awards, including the American Book Award and the ALTA Award for Dedication to Translation for his publishing.
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Douglas Messerli's book Reading Films: My International Cinema was published in 2012.