Douglas Coupland (1961-) is a Canadian fiction writer as well as a playwright and visual artist. His first novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991), was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, became an international bestseller and popularized the terms "McJob" and "Generation X". Much of Coupland's work explores the relationships and cultural shifts that occur with mass consumption, popular culture and new technologies. Some of his most popular themes include the conflict between secular and religious values, fear of adulthood and growing old, and ironic attitudes towards pop and mass culture.

In 1995, Coupland came out with Microserfs which presented a darkly comedic portrait of an imaginary group of Microsoft computer programmers. In 2006 he came out with jPod a sequel "in the spirit" of Microserfs, which explores the various lives of a fictional group of video game programmers who are bombarded with too much information from sources such as the internet. The book also explores Pop Art and text art typography, which are themes Coupland first explored with Microserfs.

Recently, Coupland has been working more with art and film. In 2006, the movie Everything's Gone Green was released, based on his original screenplay. That same year a feature length documentary, Souvenir of Canada, based on his eponymous non-fiction work, was released as well.

In his latest novel, The Gum Thief (2007), Coupland's anti-hero, Roger, is a middle-aged "Sales Associate" in an office supply superstore. Roger develops a surreal friendship with a younger coworker through the writings in his mock diary.

Click here to see what Douglas Coupland titles are held by the Escondido Public Library.

• Generation X (1991)
• Life After God (1994)
• Microserfs (1995)
• Hey Nostradamus! (2003)
• jPod (2006)