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C. D. Payne (born C. Douglas Payne; July 5, 1949) is an American writer of absurdist fiction who is best known for his series of novels about fictional teenager Nick Twisp. They are called the "Youth in Revolt" series or "The Journals of Nick Twisp."
S ample previews of all of C.D. Payne's novels are available at Amazon.com. Join the tumultuous, ever-burgeoning Twisp clan as they face the bumps and pitfalls of life in Los Angeles. Romance blooms, enemies plot revenge, elephants rampage, and blazes ignite as the Twisps prove again that life and love can be a hilarious challenge.
C.D. Payne has 45 books on Goodreads with 25698 ratings. C.D. Payne’s most popular book is Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp, Book One.
His latest mobile sideshow is a 1950s mini. Author and showman C.D. Payne was born in Akron, Ohio in 1949 (making him a contemporary of Richard Gere and Meryl Streep). He spent his early years in West Virginia and southern Ohio, moving back to Akron while still a mere tot.
Aug 1, 1993 · Not your average coming of age novel, C.D. Payne's trilogy of short novels about the travails of young journaler Nick Twisp has a comic wit and intricate plot twists that can be enjoyed by people of all ages.
Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp is a 1993 epistolary novel by C. D. Payne. The story is told in a picaresque fashion and makes heavy use of dark humor and camp. The book contains parts one through three of an eleven-part series (the three sequential parts were published as three separate books).
C. D. Payne is an America writer of absurdist fiction and is also the author of the novels Youth in Revolt, Civic Beauties, Cut to the Twisp, Frisco Pigeon Mambo, Young and Revolting, and Revoltingly Young, all of which he has successfully self-published.
