A simple yet compelling account …. Douglas’ writing style reflects the straight-ahead execution of that 1950 team. The New Hampshire author isn’t flashy, doesn’t feint or dodge.
— Chicago Tribune about The Game of Their Lives
“Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.”
— Stephen King
Hello, and thanks for checking in to my little corner of the Web. I’m an author, magazine writer, teacher, former reporter and editor, news junkie, and lover of books, movies, the Red Sox, fly fishing, thoroughbred racing, and (when I can afford it) casino blackjack. I’ve written five books and a hundred or so magazine articles. One of the books was adapted for a 2005 movie (The Game of Their Lives trailer). Seventeen of the stories were anthologized in a 2019 book. I’ve received a Bread Loaf Fellowship as well as several other awards, and was a finalist for a National Magazine Award.
I hope you’ll click around, maybe read one or two of the stories here, check out the books, and get in touch if you feel like it. My email address is included. I’d love to hear from you.
Douglas has opted not to write the standard ‘true crime’ book …. Instead, [he] attempts something more ambitious — to find the ‘tremendous human commonness’ between two disparate families ‘riven by the same act.’
— Hartford Courant about Dead Opposite
The ghost of F. Scott Fitzgerald haunts the corridors of Geoffrey Douglas’s pain-soaked but splendidly constructed prose. But this memoir’s moral accomplishment surpasses even its literary grace … an act of heroic redemption.
— Ron Powers, author, “Flags of Our Fathers,” winner of Pulitzer Prize for Criticism about Class
Eerily reminiscent of the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald or Nathaniel West, Douglas is an exceptionally insightful writer.
— BookPage
Douglas’ sheer talent as a writer … his prose is elegant yet accessible, poetic yet uncluttered.
— Arkansas Democrat-Gazette