The latest in my series of publishing biography information for my fictional characters in The Forest Dark. Louis Ronald Reagan von Eiff White was probably the hardest persona for me as the writer to inhabit — a 24 year old, in 2009. He’s a mixed-race, heterosexual man-boy. Harder for me to write than a fifty-something woman (Eden von Eiff, his mother)? I think it was. At times anyway, though not always.

It’s funny, since those of us older than our 20s have lived through all that and much more, we think, “oh sure, I remember what it was like.” But the truth is we really don’t think the way we used to when we were younger, and it’s difficult to conjure up. There are those who seem to have an affinity for certain life periods (thinking of someone like the late filmmaker John Hughes, who had that knack to immediately dredge back high school, to fantastic effect).

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No really what does he look like? Well, I knew he came from a similar situation as this guy:

The Most Powerful Man in the World

But he was much younger and has a certain accoutrement (you’ll have to read the book) – but then I saw this commercial (which I thought was great, btw) and I realized that this is not far from what my intention was with Louie White – though Dante de Blasio is still a teenager:

So what do you need to know about Louis White? Well  —

• he’s proficient at surfing.
• he has a best friend named Zeke
• he has a girlfriend, Stephanie, who he met in high school
• he has a slight inferiority complex – resulting from the rejection of his mother
• he is the best kind of cool because he’s totally unaware of it
• he’s actually talented in the same way that his mother is
• he tweets, and has quite a following
• he writes an award-winning blog at 24
• never knew his father, but touts his Cuban heritage anyway
• he has a ‘fro (not at all unlike Dante)
• I think he’s somewhat passive/aggressive
• he’s also charismatic and knows how to work it
• he has no good adult role models but craves them; his closest relationship is with a crazy middle-aged white gay man

A pretty interesting and fun character for me to write. Certain folks have said I should base a series of books on him. Not sure about that but it’s intriguing. New review of Forest Dark here.