Curated category
American fantasy writers
- Stephen KingStephen Edwin King was born on the 21st of September 1947 in Portland, Maine. His father Donald Edwin King worked as a traveling vacuum salesman after…
- Edgar Allan PoeOn the 27th of May 1827, a young man named Edgar A. Perry enlisted in the United States Army under an assumed name. He was actually eighteen years old and…
- Poul AndersonPoul William Anderson arrived in the world on the 25th of November 1926. He was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania to parents who had emigrated from Denmark.
- Edgar Rice BurroughsEdgar Rice Burroughs was born on the 1st of September 1875, in Chicago, Illinois. He was the fourth son of Major George Tyler Burroughs and his wife Mary…
- H. P. LovecraftHoward Phillips Lovecraft was born on the 20th of August 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island. His father Winfield Scott Lovecraft suffered a psychotic episode…
- John JakesJohn William Jakes entered the world on the 31st of March 1932, in Chicago, Illinois. His early years unfolded within a city that would later shape his…
- George R. R. MartinGeorge Raymond Martin was born on the 20th of September 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father worked as a longshoreman while his mother's family had once…
- L. Sprague de CampLyon Sprague de Camp was born on the 27th of November 1907 in New York City. He grew up as one of three sons to Lyon de Camp, a businessman dealing in real…
- Lin CarterLinwood Vrooman Carter stood in the infantry during the Korean War from 1951 to 1953. He served as a soldier before he ever became a professional author.
- Dave WolvertonJohn David Wolverton arrived in Springfield, Oregon on the 28th of May 1957. His family moved to a farm in Monroe when he was six years old.
- David BenioffDavid Friedman entered the world on the 25th of September 1970, in New York City. He grew up as the youngest of three children in a Jewish family with…
- Robert E. HowardRobert E. Howard was born on the 22nd of January 1906 in Peaster, Texas. His father worked as a traveling country physician while his mother raised him in a…
- Fletcher PrattMurray Fletcher Pratt stood before a grand jury in February 1916 after police arrested him for stealing less than twenty-five dollars from newspaper cash…
- Roger ZelaznyRoger Joseph Zelazny was born in Euclid, Ohio on the 13th of May 1937. He grew up as the only child of a Polish immigrant father and an Irish-American mother.
- Gary GygaxErnest Gary Gygax was born on the 27th of July 1938 in Chicago, Illinois. His father Ernst worked as a violinist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra while his…
- Jack VanceJohn Holbrook Vance arrived in the world on the 28th of August 1916. His family lived in a large house on Filbert Street in San Francisco during his early…
- A. MerrittAbraham Grace Merritt was born on the 20th of January 1884 in Beverly, New Jersey. He moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1894.
- Fritz LeiberFritz Leiber Jr. entered the world on the 24th of December 1910, in Chicago, Illinois. He was born to actors Fritz Leiber and Virginia Bronson Leiber.
- Frank MentzerJacob Franklin Mentzer III stood in the White House gardens on a spring day in 1972. He played his guitar for inner-city children while Pat Nixon watched…
- James Wyatt (game designer)James Wyatt grew up in Ithaca, New York. He attended Ithaca High School and graduated in 1986. His childhood involved playing role-playing games since the…
- John Eric HolmesJohn Eric Holmes stood on the frozen ground of Korea in 1952. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps at that time.
- Alan Dean FosterAlan Dean Foster was born on the 18th of November 1946. He began his professional life writing advertisements for a living.
- Leigh BrackettLeigh Douglass Brackett was born on the 7th of December 1915 in Los Angeles, California. Her father died when she was very young and her mother did not…