Geoffrey Douglas (born 1944) is an American author and
journalist and adjunct professor of writing at the University of
Massachusetts/Lowell.
His nonfiction books include The Game of
Their Lives (about the 1950 FIFA World Cup football match between the
United States and England) (1996, 2005), which resulted in a movie of
the same name (2005) starring Gerard Butler and Wes Bentley.
He
also wrote The Classmates: Privilege, Chaos and the End of an Era
(2008);, Dead Opposite: The Lives and Loss of Two American Boys (1994);
and Class: The Wreckage of an American Family, based partly on his own
experiences. (1992). His magazine work has been anthologized; "The
Double Life of Laura Shaw" is in Best American Sports Writing 2001.,[1]
while his story in Yankee, "A Question of Life and Death," was a 2002
finalist for a National Magazine Award in reporting.
He
contributes:
Two of my books — the first and the most
recent—would probably come under the heading of memoir. The remaining
two -- one an examination of a savage crime and the people at either end
of it, the other a portrait of mid-20th-century immigrant men through
the prism of a World Cup soccer game -- were both driven by questions of
class and race. The third book, "The Game of Their Lives," was made into
a wide-release, 2005 movie.
The magazine pieces, nearly all
feature-length articles written over the past thirty-plus years, have
run the gamut from profile to investigative journalism. In addition, I
serve part-time as a writer at UMass Lowell, where I contribute 5-6
pieces per issue, three times yearly, to that University's Alumni
Magazine.
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