Profile of David Loftus
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Native Oregonian David Loftus has lived in Europe and Boston, as well as traveled in Asia and Africa. He has a bachelor's from Harvard, partly on the strength of an undergraduate thesis on John Fowles's THE MAGUS, about which Fowles wrote: "You do rather presume an 'academic' knowledge in me (a full consciousness of what I am - or was - doing), which is far from the truth; but I liked your general line..." David has been a full-time newspaper reporter, and is the author of three books. He now makes his home in Portland, where he does a lot of stage acting and live readings as well as writing. You can find audio samples of his voice acting on the International Tales and Afterhell web sites, as well as on his own site. David does book reviews for "The Oregonian" as well as the "California Literary Review," and film reviews for DocumentaryFilms.net.
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