C.D. Payne is an American author of absurdist fiction who is best known for his series of novels about fictional teenager Nick Twisp. They are called the "Youth in Revolt" series and are: Absurdist Fiction, an extreme branch of satire, is a form of fiction or poetry that utilizes absurd characters, situations or subjects to promote thoughtful laughter. ...
Cut to the Twisp: the Missing Chapters of Youth in Revolt
Revolting Youth: the Further Journals of Nick Twisp
In the novels the protagonist, Nick, strives to balance out his budding sexual urges while remaining an intellectual teenager in a world of moronic adults. Youth in Revolt: the Journals of Nick Twisp is a novel by C.D. Payne. ...
Along with the "Youth" series he is the author of several other novels including Frisco Pigeon Mambo and Civic Beauties a parody of beauty pageants which was the basis for the film Drop Dead Gorgeous. Frisco Pigeon Mambo is a 2000 absurdist fiction novel by author C.D. Payne. ... Drop Dead Gorgeous was a film originally released in 1999. ...