Ella Pruitt

Doug Cooper Spencer is a novelist, short fiction writer and essayist living in New York City. He is the author of four novels: ’This Place of Men’, ’People Like Us’, ’Leaving Gomorrah’ (books of the ’This Place of Men Trilogy’), and ’Ella Pruitt’. He also wrote ’A Letter to a Friend: Thoughts on Living As A Gay Man’, which was written in the form of an epistle, as well as numerous essays, short stories and autobiographical memoirs which he calls ’memory pieces’. Doug’s writings have appeared in the anthology ＂Mighty Real: An Anthology of African-American Same Gender Loving Writing＂. He also wrote the forward to the first edition of ＂Carry the Word＂ which is a reference book of black SGLT writers. In 2006 Doug was nominated by ’Clik Magazine’ as one of their ＂Elite 25 Black Gay Writers＂. When he’s not working Doug says he enjoys taking long walks in the city, reading, listening to National Public Radio, and watching movies with his husband, Greg, a hair stylist, barber and photographer whom he met in 1998. They also enjoy going to museums and art galleries, traveling, watching football and field and track events together or simply relaxing quietly at home and having a good laugh. Doug Cooper Spencer is the proud father of Courtney Nicole Cooper who graduated from The University of Cincinnati with a degree in Comparative Literature and who works in administration and as a freelance editor. Currently Doug is at work on his fifth novel, a collection of short stories and memory pieces. Many of Doug’s writings are at his site: www.Dougcooperspencer.com.