C.D. Payne
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C.D. Payne is an American author of absurdist fiction who is best known for his series of novels about fictional teenager Nick Twisp. They are called the "Youth in Revolt" series and are:
- Youth in Revolt: the Journals of Nick Twisp
- Cut to the Twisp: the Missing Chapters of Youth in Revolt
- Revolting Youth: the Further Journals of Nick Twisp
- Young and Revolting: The Continental Journals of Nick Twisp
- Revoltingly Young: The Journals of Nick Twisp's Younger Brother
In the novels the protagonist, Nick, strives to balance out his budding sexual urges while remaining an intellectual teenager in a world of moronic adults.
Along with the "Youth" series he is the author of several other novels including Frisco Pigeon Mambo and Civic Beauties, a parody of politics in the United States, which follows the lives of two teenage twin girls whose father is campaigning to be Vice President. He has also published a play titled, Queen of America: A Royal Comedy in Three Acts. Frisco Pigeon Mambo was bought by Fox Animation, but was never made into a film. Youth in Revolt is in development by Dimension Films.
Payne was born in Akron, Ohio in 1949 (July 5). He graduated from Harvard College in 1971. He then moved to California, and has worked as a newspaper editor, cartoonist, typesetter, graphic artist, proofreader, photographer, advertising copywriter, trailerpark handyman, and carpenter. He is married and lives in Sonoma County.
