Douglas Anthony Cooper is the author of two critically acclaimed novels for adults. The first, Amnesia, was a national bestseller - it was shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and longlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. Delirium, which followed, was the first novel to be serialized on the Web.He has published two bestselling novels for young adults: Milrose Munce and the Den of Professional Help, and Milrose Munce and the Plague of Toxic Fungus. Cooper lives in Oaxaca, but collaborates regularly with artists and architects around the world: most recently on Chain City, a video installation with Diller Scofidio + Renfro at the Venice Biennale. For five years Cooper was a Contributing Editor at New York Magazine, where he wrote and photographed the travel features. His essays and photography have appeared in Food & Wine, Rolling Stone, Travel+Leisure and The New York Times; and he has been collected in The Best American Travel Writing (ed. Pico Iyer). Douglas Anthony Cooper's journalism has won numerous awards, including a National Magazine Award in Canada, and the Lowell Thomas Gold Medal, America's most prestigious travel writing award.