Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist, designer, and visual artist. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized the terms "Generation X" and "McJob". He has published 13 novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television.

Coupland is a columnist for the Financial Times, and a frequent contributor to The New York Times, e-flux journal, DIS Magazine, and Vice. His art exhibitions include Everywhere Is Anywhere Is Anything Is Everything, exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, now the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada, and Bit Rot at Rotterdam's Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, as well as Munich's Villa Stuck.

Douglas Coupland is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Order of British Columbia. His notable works include Worst. Person. Ever., published in 2012, and an updated version of City of Glass, as well as the biography Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan. He was the presenter of the 2010 Massey Lectures, which had a companion novel published by House of Anansi Press: Player One – What Is to Become of Us: A Novel in Five Hours.

He has been long-listed twice for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2006 and 2010 and was a finalist for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2009. He was nominated for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 2011 for Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan.