Douglas Morris

Douglas E. Morris has had 16 books published, the most recent of which was the critically acclaimed Cold War thriller, The Daily American, set in Rome, Italy. His latest novel is The New Dark Ages, a post-apocalyptic thriller set in the fortified hill town of Urbino in Italy. He was the editor of two award-winning weekly U.S Embassy newsletters – the Veneto Views in Rome and the Brussels Weekly in Brussels – had a monthly travel column about Italy in Primo magazine and has penned articles for a variety of periodicals around the world, including The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Flanders Today, National Geographic Georgia, Smoke, Transitions Abroad, Foreign Service Journal, and State Magazine.

The author has had the privilege of living on three continents, in 12 countries, over more than 30 years. He has visited the pyramids in Egypt, trekked Alpine peaks in Switzerland and Austria, savored the libertine culture of Copenhagen, hiked Hadrian’s Wall in northern England, unearthed ancient Roman ruins in Caesarea Israel, climbed the pyramids of Chichen Itza in the Yucatan, traversed the Great Wall in China, sailed the Fjords of Norway, scaled the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and bar hopped down Hooker Hill in Seoul, among many other destinations. He has also been wrongly incarcerated in Rome’s maximum-security prison, became stranded in the middle of the Tunisian desert, and survived the tumult of terrorism in Israel, England and Italy, along with other acts of wild abandon far removed from everyday life. In conjunction, he won the GW Award for outstanding contributions to his university, tried out for two NFL teams as a placekicker, was a bicycle courier dodging maniacal traffic on the streets of DC, opened a puppy rescue center in Tbilisi Georgia, started the non-profit Books for Kosovo in Pristina, and toiled away as an IT entrepreneur until his retirement at age 46.

He currently resides on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco with his wife and cat, where he puts fingers to keyboard on his terrace with Coit Tower looming above and the Golden Gate bridge and the city’s skyline panoramically spread out before him.