birth_place notableworks birth_date image article_title name occupation
lakewood , california , u.s. '' where we are now '' '' california romantica '' holy land : a suburban memoir '' '' 15 september 1948 file portrait_2012 . jpg : waldie , _ d. _ j. _ d. j. waldie
 d. j. waldie writer , translator , city administrator
d. j. waldie

d. j. waldie -lrb- donald j. waldie -rrb- is an american essayist , memoirist , translator , and editor who also is the former deputy city manager of lakewood , california .
although best known for his memoir `` holy land : a suburban memoir '' -lrb- 1995 and 2005 , w. w. norton -rrb- , waldie is regarded as a thoughtful observer of los angeles ' history , politics , and culture .
`` nobody ` sees ' l.a. with more eloquence than d.j. waldie , '' noted susan brenneman , `` los angeles times '' deputy op-ed editor , in may 2014 .
and `` waldie ... is one of the writers responsible for developing a southern california aesthetic in which what 's most vivid about the place is everything we might take for granted somewhere else , '' said david ulin , book critic of the `` los angeles times '' in april 2014 .
