D. J. Waldie

D. J. Waldie is an American essayist, memoirist, translator, and editor.

Life

D. J. Waldie lives in Lakewood, California, in the house his parents bought in 1946. He was born in 1948.

In the mid-1970s, he taught at California State University Long Beach in the Department of Comparative Literature and the University Honors Program.

Waldie began his career in public administration in Lakewood in December 1977. He served as the city's Public Information Officer between 1981 and 2010. He retired as Deputy City Manager of Lakewood in September 2010.

He has written for the Los Angeles Times,^[1] where he is a contributing editor. He also is contributing writer at Los Angeles magazine.

In 2010, his memoir of growing up in suburban Los Angeles County in the 1950s was optioned by James Franco ^[2] for a film project.

Awards

• 1998 Whiting Writers' Award
• 1995 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
• 1994 California Arts Council fellowship

Works

• "D.J. Waldie on the greatest gift". The Los Angeles Times. December 23, 2009. http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-waldie23-2009dec23,0,2515654.story. 
• "An Ordinary Place", Los Angeles Now

• Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir. W. W. Norton & Company. 2005. ISBN 9780393327281. http://books.google.com/books?id=NtgEEDGqn9cC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:DJ+inauthor:Waldie&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles. Angel City Press. 2004. ISBN 9781883318383. 
• D. J. Waldie (2004). Close to Home: An American Album. J. Paul Getty Museum. ISBN 978-0892367719. 
• D. J. Waldie (2001). Real City: Downtown Los Angeles Inside/Out. Photographer Marissa Roth. Angel City Press. ISBN 9781883318079. 
• D. J. Waldie (2008). California Romantica. Photographers Lisa Hardaway, Paul Hester, Produced by Diane Keaton. Rizzoli. ISBN 9780847892750. 

Translations

• Stéphane Mallarmé. Poem: a throw of the dice will never abolish chance. Translator D. J. Waldie, Illustrator Gary Young. Greenhouse Review Press, 1990. 

Poems

• Sympathy: 5 poems, Greenhouse Review Press, 1977
• The grain is unlocked: The grain unravels, Greenhouse Review Press, 1977

Contributor To

• Writing Los Angeles, Library of America, 2002
• My California, Angel City Press/California Arts Council, 2004
• California Uncovered: Stories for the 21st Century, Heyday Books/California Council for the Humanities, 2004
• Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, Trinity University Press, 2006
• The Suburb Reader, Routledge, 2006
• Cities: Architecture and Society - 10. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, la Biennale de Venezia, 2006
• Seeing Los Angeles: A Different Look at a Different City, Otis/Seismicity Editions, 2007
• An Atlas of Radical Cartography, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press)
• The People and Promise of California, Longman, 2008
• Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life, Borealis Books/Minnesota Historical Society, 2008
• Blackwell Companion to California, Blackwell, 2008
• Los Angeles: Eine Stadt im Film, Osterreichischen FilmMuseums, 2008
• The Lost Origins of the Essay, Graywolf Press, 2009
• Common Place: The American Motel, Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2010

Film Research

• The War from the Air, Nova/PBS. 1975
• Hitler’s Secret Weapon, Nova/PBS, 1976
• Will Rogers: America in the ‘20s, Will Rogers Foundation. 1977

References

1. ^ "Featured Articles From the Los Angeles Times". The Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/writers/d-j-waldie. 
2. ^ "D. J. Waldie" (Press release). Hotchkiss and Associates. http://www.hotchkissandassociates.com/?p=320. 

External links

• "An excerpt from Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir", California Authors, Kate Cohen, March 7, 2005
• Where We Are, KCET TV
• "D. J. Waldie, Bard of Lakewood", Next American City, interview by Hilary Kaplan, January 2005
• "Rush", from Driving Passions, KCET TV, 2006
• "An excert from Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir",Writing Los Angeles, Library of America, 2005

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Name	Waldie, D.J.
Alternative names	Donald J. Waldie
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Date of birth	September 15, 1948
Place of birth	Long Beach, California
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