{{short description|American novelist}} {{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see :Template:Infobox Writer/doc. --> | name = Doug Dorst | image = Doug dorst 2014.jpg | image_size = | alt = Head shot of Dorst smiling | caption = Dorst at the 2014 Texas Book Festival | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Writer, Instructor | language = English | nationality = American | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = Stanford University<br>University of California, Berkeley<br>University of Iowa | period = | genre = Fiction | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|http://dougdorst.com}} | portaldisp = }} '''Doug Dorst''' is an American novelist, short story writer, and creative writing instructor. Dorst is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He is the current director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Texas State University in San Marcos.
Dorst is the author of the novel ''Alive in Necropolis'', a runner-up for the 2008 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, winner of the Emperor Norton Award, and San Francisco's 2009 One City One Book selection. His collection ''The Surf Guru'' (also on Riverhead Books) was well-received and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award. October 2013 saw the release of ''S.'', a novel Dorst wrote in collaboration with ''Lost'' co-creator J. J. Abrams.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/jj-abrams-gets-book-deal-alive-necropolis-author-doug-dorst-26210 |title=Tim Molloy - J. J. Abrams Gets Book Deal With 'Alive in Necropolis' Author Doug Dorst - The Wrap |access-date=2012-11-06 |archive-date=2013-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128235233/http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/jj-abrams-gets-book-deal-alive-necropolis-author-doug-dorst-26210 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Dorst was a three-time ''Jeopardy!'' winner<ref>''S.'', by J. J. Abrams & Doug Dorst, "About the Authors," Melcher Media, 2013.</ref> and competed in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.j-archive.com/showplayer.php?player_id=1951|title = J! Archive - Doug Dorst}}</ref>
==Bibliography== * ''Alive in Necropolis'' * ''The Surf Guru'' * ''S.'' (with J. J. Abrams)
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==External links== {{wikiquote}} * [http://dougdorst.com/ Doug Dorst homepage] * [http://vimeo.com/20477334 Doug Dorst reads at the Katherine Anne Porter House].
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