Doug Cooper Spencer is a novelist, short fiction writer and essayist living in New York City. He is the author of four novels: 'This Place of Men', 'People Like Us', 'Leaving Gomorrah' (books of the 'This Place of Men Trilogy'), and 'Ella Pruitt'. He also wrote 'A Letter to a Friend: Thoughts on Living As A Gay Man', which was written in the form of an epistle, as well as numerous essays, short stories and autobiographical memoirs which he calls 'memory pieces'. Doug's writings have appeared in the anthology "Mighty Real: An Anthology of African-American Same Gender Loving Writing." He also wr...