Descension

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Daniel Trump is a schizophrenic writer who writes novels, novellas, books of poetry, and various reviews and shorter works. He wrote Descension, a brutally realistic look at life in America with a mental illness. He was born on December 30, 1977 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He grew up in suburbs of Detroit and then Chicago. He had trouble making friends in high school until he made a group of geek friends, many of whom are still friends with him today. He worked at the high school newspaper as copy editor and news writer. The University of Iowa gave him a solid college education. He studied English and Japanese, spending a summer in England and Scotland and his junior year of college in Japan. He finished his first novel, Illusionary Paintings, around that time. He didn't publish it immediately but several people noted a strong female character and an interesting conclusion.

After college - from 2000 to 2002 Daniel worked in Washington, DC, Tucson, and Las Vegas as a temporary employee, filling paperwork and making copies. None of these jobs fulfilled him because he didn't think that they helped society or involved connecting with people. He felt like a worthless peon who had failed as a writer. He finished his second novel, My Little Paradise, around that time. He tried to reflect how awful middle school was. He remembered being bullied, homophobic remarks, and people who told the most embarrassing and humiliating stories possible about classmates. Friends didn't admit to being friends with him at school. He wanted to show that one can survive the terrible times when everything felt terrible, pathetic, and wrong.

Around 2002 Daniel lived in Las Vegas, Nevada. He felt depressed that his second novel didn't sell and hated being a mindless peon who didn't help society at all, merely working as a faceless nobody in the American economic system. Daniel became sicker and sicker and eventually couldn't finish sentences or notice the world around him. He was diagnosed around 2003 with paranoid schziophrenia and spent time in a mental health wing of a hospital. He found that he was too disabled to hold a job and moved back to the suburbs of Chicago.

He continued to write, however, and around 2015 he began to publish novellas and novels. He published Illusionary Paintings, My Little Paradise, The Renaissance and the Homeworlders, Lovers Gone, and Descension within the span of a few years, establishing himself as a serious, hardworking novelist who tried to look at reality with a difficult and brutal lens. He lives in Grayslake, Illinois, and continues to write short stories, novels, reviews, and a blog which has had many hundreds of views and reads.