- Douglas Coupland was born on December 30, 1961 in Baden-Söllingen, West Germany. He is a writer and producer, known for JPod (2008), Everything's Gone Green (2006) and All Families Are Psychotic.
- Coined the phrase "Generation X" with his seminal 1991 novel "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture."
- Intended the phrase "Generation X" to represent people born in the late 1950s and 1960s, not those born in the 1970s and 1980s (as is typically described).
- [as a judge on a contest to capture the sensual aspect of a photograph] There is obviously something out there. I don't know how or why it works, but we've all felt it and we all know it's real. That's the sixth sense.
- What I like doing when I write books is finding something incredibly obvious that's almost too big to see. I think that's what happened with 'Generation X' - reporting on the modern world in general. That same sort of thing in the art world is finding something so obvious as bottle caps and looking at it again and saying, 'What's going on here?'
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