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name: Geoffrey Douglas
about: Geoffrey Douglas is the author of five nonfiction books and more than 100 magazine pieces, many of them widely anthologized. A former reporter, editor, columnist, and adjunct professor of creative writing at the University of Massachusetts, he has been a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a writer-in-residence at several schools and universities. 	His books include two widely-reviewed memoirs -- "Class" (1992) and “The Classmates" (2008) -- as well as "The Game of Their Lives “ (1996), an account of the 1950 U.S. World Cup soccer team and the immigrant men who composed it, adapted as a 2005 movie of the same name. His latest book, “The Grifter, The Poet, and The Runaway Train: Stories From a Yankee Writer’s Notebook,” is a comp Geoffrey Douglas is the author of five nonfiction books and more than 100 magazine pieces, many of them widely anthologized. A former reporter, editor, columnist, and adjunct professor of creative writing at the University of Massachusetts, he has been a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a writer-in-residence at several schools and universities. 	His books include two widely-reviewed memoirs -- "Class" (1992) and “The Classmates" (2008) -- as well as "The Game of Their Lives “ (1996), an account of the 1950 U.S. World Cup soccer team and the immigrant men who composed it, adapted as a 2005 movie of the same name. His latest book, “The Grifter, The Poet, and The Runaway Train: Stories From a Yankee Writer’s Notebook,” is a compilation of his stories in Yankee, written over the past 20 years. ...more