D. J. Waldie

D. J. Waldie is a cultural historian, memoirist, and translator. He is the author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, Where Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles, Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place, Elements of Los Angeles: Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and other books about Southern California. He is a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. In books, essays, and online commentary, Waldie has sought to frame the suburban experience as a search for a sense of place. Often using his hometown of Lakewood as a starting point, Waldie’s work ranges widely over the history of suburbanization and its cultural effects in Southern California and the nation.