To Cure The Humans! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780615900056)

Douglas Lewis grew up in Ft. Worth, Texas, where his sense of humor was honed by being raised in a middle-class family, attending public schools, and being told at a young age that his hometown was #3 on the list of Soviet nuclear targets. He was first published in high school, where his dark, ironic, angsty poetry was included in the school's yearly literary magazine. Flush with royalty money, he attended Texas Christian University, where he graduated in 1984 with a degree in biology, a minor in philosophy, and unwarranted optimism. Four years later, Douglas graduated from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - internationally recognized as a medical school with a name that seems a bit too wordy. For well over four years, he has written and performed stand up comedy. By 2012, his three children had more-or-less reached adulthood and, taking advantage of the time he used to spend fielding calls from upset school administrators, he began writing To Cure the Humans. He lives and works in Austin, Texas, where he can still occasionally be found onstage performing stand up, when they let him.