Douglas Childs LaNier Member Member since 2019

Writing stories inspired by real places and people

Fiction

Douglas Childs LaNier is a novelist and short-story writer with a career spanning journalism, advertising, public relations, and destination marketing. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he later pursued graduate creative writing studies at the University of Tampa and studied fiction with novelist Tom Drury at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Summer Program. Before devoting himself more fully to fiction, LaNier led tourism organizations in five states and served as marketing director for Zoo Atlanta. He lives on Florida’s Gulf Coast, where he writes fiction shaped by a lifetime of travel, observation, and storytelling.

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New Port Richey, Florida

Birthdate:

3 May (68 years old)

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