Douglas Abrams
Author, editor and literary agent
Doug Abrams is an author, editor and literary agent. He co-wrote The Book of Joy with the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu.
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About Douglas Abrams
Doug Abrams is a bestselling author who co-wrote The Book of Joy with the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, and The Book of Hope with Jane Goodall. The Book of Joy inspired the film MISSION: JOY, in which he was the interviewer and an Executive Producer. His fiction includes The Lost Diary of Don Juan and Eye of the Whale, and together those two novels have appeared in over thirty languages. Abrams founded Idea Architects, a book and media company, and is its president. Through his work as an agent and editor, he has played a part in 18 New York Times bestsellers. He spent nearly twenty years working with Desmond Tutu as co-author, editor and agent, and he also worked with Stephen Hawking on his last book.