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About Me
Douglas Carlton Abrams has been in publishing for over two decades. Before founding Idea Architects in 2000, he was a Senior Editor at HarperCollins and prior to that at the University of California Press. He has edited and agented many award-winning and popular books on subjects from personal growth to political commentary. In addition, he served as Vice-President & Editorial Director for JustGive.org, a leading philanthropy website. He is the author of a number of bestselling books, including books with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar, and Taoist Master Mantak Chia that have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He also writes novels, including The Lost Diary of Don Juan, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller and has been translated into thirty languages. His new novel is an eco-thriller, The Eye of the Whale. He lives with his wife, Rachel, a family physician, and their three children, Jesse, Kayla, and Eliana, in Santa Cruz, California.
- Location:
- United States, Santa Cruz, CA
- Current organization:
- Idea Architects
- Gender:
- Male
- I am:
- Brainstormer, Business adviser, Change Agent, Connector, Entrepreneur, Global soul, Idea generator, Parent, World traveler, Writer/Editor
- My website links:
- Idea Architects
- TED conferences attended:
- TEDActive 2013, TEDActive 2012, TED2011
More About Me
I'm passionate about
Visionaries, ideas that unleash people and the planet.
An idea worth spreading
Using the internet to improve our neural net.
Talk to me about
Visionary people and ideas, popular book ideas, internet media start-ups and media 3.0 ideas, the environment, socially transformational business, changing the world through the market
People don't know that I'm good at
Body surfing and making and eating chocolate chip cookies
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