Background

Coerte V.W. Felske was born in New York City and grew up in Manhattan and Quogue, Long Island. After his parent's divorce, he was moved to Westchester. In Quogue, he lived across the street from the Field Club where for four years he was the club tennis champion and around the block from the Fords of the Ford Modeling Agency. His father, Richard Norman Felske, was a former professional baseball player who attended Yale and played college ball with former president George H. W. Bush. He eventually became a major real estate developer on the East End.

Education

Growing up in the Hamptons, Felske attended the Quogue School prior to his parent's divorce, when he was moved to Westchester and attended Bronxville High School. Felske went on to attend Dartmouth College as a Romance Language major and speaks both French and Italian, having studied abroad extensively as an undergraduate. He did his graduate work in film directing and screenwriting at Columbia University.

Career

Felske's original career goal was to be a film director. Advised to write screenplays as a lead-in to directing, Felske made the move to the West Coast. Felske hit the ground running in 1995 with his controversial first novel, "The Shallow Man" and in it created an acknowledged, unique 1990s vernacular that quickly became colloquial to an entire generation of A-Listers and their wannabes. Felske never really took to Los Angeles, "I found it to be a dead soul town," and was glad to be catapulted back to New York with the best selling success of his maiden novel, which was picked up immediately by Crown Press, an imprint of Random House.

Felske's second novel "Word" was published in 1998 and he again garnered both critical and controversial acclaim. A year later Felske's most provocative novel hit the streets, "The Millennium Girl."

Recently Felske has regained all the rights to his books and created his own imprint, Dolce Vita Press. The imprint’s inaugural publication was Scandalocity published in 2012. Special author’s cut anniversary editions of both the acclaimed Word and The Millennium Girl were released in 2014 followed by The Shallow Man: 20th Anniversary Edition in 2015 with brilliantly created cover art by his friend, renowned American artist, and photographer Peter Beard and featuring Brazilian supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio. Felske’s southwest psychological drama The Ivory Stretch was released in 2016. Three Sleeps to Double Happiness, Felske’s sixth original novel is slated for a summer, 2018 release accompanied by a book reading and signing tour in the United States and Canada.

The Dolce Vita Press was established to enhance contact with the readership as well as offer the author creative freedom to incorporate the talents of top photographers, graphic artists, and book jacket designers. The DVP label derives from the Italian term “dolce vita,” which translates to the “sweet life.”

Achievements

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  Coerte Felske is a demanded and critically acclaimed author with a strong fan base and a good selling creative work. He runs the online literary imprint The Dolce Vita Press, which lets him be more commercially successful and independent as a writer.

Works

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  • The Ivory Stretch

    (Frenetic, bedazzling, idiosyncratic, and uniquely origina...)

    2016
  • The Millennium Girl

    (In a world of beautiful gold-diggers and their rich quarr...)

    1999
  • Scandalocity

    (Scandalocity is a sexy, ADHD psychological thriller, and ...)

    2011
  • The Shallow Man

    (In his first novel, The Shallow Man, Coerte V.W. Felske s...)

    2009
  • La Chica Del Milenio 2000
  • Supergirl 2001
  • Stadt Der Lugen 1999
  • Word 1998

Views

Quotations: "I eventually moved to Los Angeles and I was writing screenplay after screenplay, probably 15 of them. I had agents and interest, but it was very difficult. It is a real struggle out there to be a screenwriter. I was writing stuff that was good but difficult to get produced because at the time Hollywood was going all 'comic book' with movies like 'Batman.' While I was waiting for something to happen I had this idea, I had an opening line, 'I never met a model I didn't like,' and a title, 'The Shallow Man.' I sat down and wrote the book in nine days, I just waterfalled it."

"Beauty is life-enhancing. Thing is beautiful. Therefore, Thing is life-enhancing."

Personality

Felske was influenced by Federico Fellini’s cinematic masterwork, La Dolce Vita, which tells the tale of a decadent group of glamorous partiers, nightclubbers, and exotic women as they navigate their way through Rome’s high society, all pursued by a playboy paparazzo. The author has often referred to his literature as “dolce vita fiction,” stories about nightclub impresarios, serial womanizers, fashionistas, fortune-hunting women, entertainment business hopefuls, and scandal sheet writers entrenched in a similar dolce vita circuitry; in essence, characters living modern versions of that illusory ‘sweet life’ depicted in Fellini’s film.

Interests

• Fellini's films

• Sport & Clubs

  tennis

Connections

Coerte V.W. Felske is a bachelor and a single father to his daughter Bodecia Felske from Sandra Zita. Bodecia Felske was illegally taken by her mother from New York to Switzerland and kept there in violation of court orders issued by the Swiss Cantonal Court in Zurich, Switzerland and the Swiss Supreme Court. Later Felske managed to return his daughter.

Father:

Richard Norman Felske

Daughter:

Bodecia Felske

Partner:

Sandra Zita

Sandra Zita is the mother of Coerte's daughter Bodecia.

References

• Contemporary Authors, Vol. 166 This volume of Contemporary Authors contains biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers.
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