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D. J. Waldie
D. J. Waldie (Donald J. Waldie) is an American essayist, memoirist, translator, and editor who also is the former Deputy City Manager of Lakewood, California.
Although best known for his memoir ''Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir'' (1996 and 2005, W. W. Norton), Waldie is regarded as a thoughtful observer of Los Angeles' history, politics, and culture. "Nobody 'sees' L.A. with more eloquence than D.J. Waldie," noted Susan Brenneman, ''Los Angeles Times'' Deputy Op-Ed Editor, in May 2014. And "Waldie ... is one of the writers responsible for developing a Southern California aesthetic in which what’s most vivid about the place is everything we might take for granted somewhere else," said David Ulin, book critic of the ''Los Angeles Times'' in April 2014.
==Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir==
Waldie's ''Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir'' (1996 and 2005, W. W. Norton) is his account of growing up in the 1950s in Lakewood, then California's largest planned suburb. Lakewood was the first of its kind on the west coast and is regraded as a parallel to Levittown, New York, the original, post-World War II, tract-house development in America.
Waldie breaks the text into 316 sections, some no longer than a sentence or two. Some deal with the author’s experiences, both in first and third person narration. These memories concentrate on his Catholic upbringing and the deaths of his parents. The majority of the sections detail the historical, geographical, political, and cultural factors both preceding the development of Lakewood's 17,000 homes and following Lakewood's incorporation as a city in 1954. Waldie focuses particularly on the three developers who built Lakewood in the early 1950s, devoting long passages to the intricacies of the development process. Other passages consider how suburban places have been viewed by their critics, with particular reference to the aerial photographs of William A. Garnett. ''Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir'' ultimately becomes a memoir of a both person and a place.
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