Nationality: American. Born: 1948. Education: Board of Indian Affairs schools, Laguna, New Mexico, and a Catholic school in Albuquerque; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, B.A. (summa cum laude) in English 1969; studied law briefly. Career: Taught for 2 years at Navajo Community College, Tsaile, Arizona; lived in Ketchikan, Alaska, for 2 years; taught at University of New Mexico. Since 1978 pr…
Pseudonyms: Walker Chapman; Ivar Jorgenson; Calvin M. Knox; David Osborne; Robert Randall; Lee Sebastian. Nationality: American. Born: New York City, 1935. Education: Columbia University, New York, A.B. 1956. Career: Full-time writer: associate editor, Amazing, January 1969 issue, and associate editor, Fantastic, February-April 1969 issues. President, Science Fiction Writers of America, 1967-68. A…
Nationality: American. Born: Green Bay, Wisconsin, 1957. Education: University of California, Berkeley, B.A. 1979; Columbia University, M.F.A. 1983. Awards: Guggenheim award, 1988; Whiting prize, 1989; Lila Wallace Readers Digest award, 1996-99; Hadder prize, Princeton University. Agent: Amanda Urban, International Creative Management, 40 West 57th St., New York, New York 10019, U.S.A. In Anywhere…
Nationality: British. Born: Oxford, 1935. Education: The Dragon School, Oxford; Eton College, Berkshire (King's scholar), 1948-53; Trinity College, Cambridge, 1955-58, B.A. (double 1st) in history, 1958; Churchill College, Cambridge, Ph.D. in American history 1962. Military Service: Served in the Coldstream Guards, 1953-55: Ensign. Career: Harkness fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mas…
Nationality: Indian. Born: Hadali, India (now Pakistan) 2 February 1915. Education: The Modern School, New Delhi; St. Stephen's College, New Delhi; Government College, Lahore, B.A. 1934; King's College, London, LL.B. 1938; called to the bar, Inner Temple, London, 1938. Career: Practicing lawyer, High Court, Lahore, 1939-47; press attaché, Indian Foreign Service, in London and Ot…
Nationality: Filipino. Born: Rosales, Pangasinan, 1924. Education: The University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Litt.B. 1949. Career: Staff member, Commonweal, Manila, 1947-48; assistant editor, United States Information Agency, U.S. Embassy, Manila, 1948-49; associate editor, 1949-57, and managing editor, 1957-60, Manila Times Sunday magazine, and editor of Manila Times annual Progress, 1958-60; editor…
Nationality: British. Born: New Delhi, India, 1946. Educated in Botswana and England. Career: Advertising copywriter, Garland Compton Ltd., 1966-68, Norman Craig and Kummel, 1969-71, Collett Dickenson and Pearce, 1971-72, Nadler Larimer and Cromer, 1972-74, all London. Freelance writer, 1974-85. Awards: Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize, 1977. With this resolution, Constance, Caroline Slaughter…
Nationality: American. Born: Los Angeles, 1949. Education: Vassar College, B.A. in English 1971; University of Iowa, M.A. 1975, M.F.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1978. Career: Assistant professor, 1981-84, associate professor, 1984-89, professor, 1989-90, distinguished Professor, 1992-96, Iowa State University. Visiting assistant professor, University of Iowa, 1981, 1987. Awards: Ful-bright grant, 1976-77; Pushc…
Nationality: British. Born: Newquay, Cornwall, 1923. Awards: Atlantic award, 1947; Rhys Memorial prize, 1949; James Tait Black Memorial prize for The Far Cry, 1950. Agent: Curtis Brown, 162-68 Regent Street, London W1R 5TB, England. (1991) What one writes for children is quite as important as what one writes for adults, and I'm not at all sure it isn't more important; because what c…
Nationality: American. Born: Grundy, Virginia, 1944. Education: Hollins College, B.A. 1967; attended Sorbonne, University of Paris. Career: Feature writer, film critic, and editor of Sunday magazine, Tuscaloosa News, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1968-69; seventh-grade teacher, Harpeth Hall School, Nashville, Tennessee, 1971-73; teacher of language arts, Carolina Friends School, Durham, North Carolina, 197…
Nationality: Canadian. Born: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 1941. Education: Dalhousie University, B.A. 1963. Military Service: Royal Canadian Air Force, 1959-64; became flying officer. Career: Systems analyst, Manufacturer's Life, Toronto, Ontario, 1963-64; full-time writer, 1964-70; instructor in English, Loyola College, Montreal, Quebec, 1970; instructor in English, Dawson College, Montreal, …
Nationality: American. Born: New York City, 1933. Education: The University of California, Berkeley, 1948-49; University of Chicago, 1949-51, B.A. 1951; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1954-57, M.A. 1955; St. Anne's College, Oxford, 1957. Career: Instructor in English, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1953-54; Teaching Fellow in Philosophy, Harvard University, 1955-57; edito…
Nationality: American. Born: Brooklyn, New York, 1929. Educated in New York public schools; Brooklyn College, 1950-51, 1955-57. Military Service: Served in the United States Army Medical Corps, 1951-53. Career: Re-insurance clerk, Fidelity and Casualty Company, New York, 1947-48; messenger, American Houses Inc., 1948-49; freight checker, Ace Assembly Agency, New York, 1954-56; packer, Bennett Bro…
Nationality: Nigerian. Born: Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka, in Abeokuta, 1934. Education: St. Peter's School, Ake, Abeokuta, 1938-43; Abeokuta Grammar School, 1944-45; Government College, Ibadan, 1946-50; University College, Ibadan (now University of Ibadan), 1952-54; University of Leeds, Yorkshire, 1954-57, B.A. (honors) in English. Career: Play reader, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1957-59; Ro…
Nationality: British. Born: Muriel Sarah Camberg in Edinburgh, 1918. Education: James Gillespie's School for Girls and Heriot Watt College, both Edinburgh. Career: Worked in the Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department during World War II. General secretary, Poetry Society, and editor, Poetry Review, London, 1947-49. Lives in Rome. Awards: Observer story prize, 1951; Italia prize, f…
Nationality: British. Born: Glasgow, 1947. Education: Glasgow University, 1966-69, and 1973-74. Career: Writer-in-residence, Glasgow University, 1975-77, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1982, Edinburgh District Council, 1986-87, and since 1990 Edinburgh University. Alan Spence's reputation as a novelist and writer of short stories is much stronger in his native Scotland than elsewhere, but he…
Nationality: British. Born: London, 1933. Education: Brighton Grammar School, Selhurst; Brighton College of Art. Military Service: Served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1950-52. Career: Paintings exhibited in Cambridge and London; costume designer. Chair, Writers Guild of Great Britain, 1982-83. Agent: Richard Scott Simon, Anthony Sheil Associates, 43 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LF, England. I …
Nationality: American. Born: Carrollton, Mississippi, 1921. Education: Belhaven College, Jackson, Mississippi, 1938-42, A.B. 1942; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1942-43, M.A. 1943. Career: Instructor, Northwest Mississippi Junior College, Senatobia, 1943-44, and Ward-Belmont College, Nashville, 1944-45; reporter, Nashville Tennessean, 1945-46; instructor, 1948-49, and instructor in creative wr…
Nationality: New Zealander. Born: Auckland, 1932. Education: Balmoral Intermediate School; Mount Albert Grammar School; Auckland University, B.A. 1954, M.A. (honors) 1955; Bristol University (Michael Hiatt Baker Scholar), Ph.D. 1961. Career: Lecturer in English, University of New England, New South Wales, 1956-57; lecturer, 1960-61, senior lecturer, 1962-64, associate professor, 1964-67, professor…
Nationality: Canadian. Born: Toronto, Ontario, 1947. Education: University of Toronto, Ontario, 1967-71, B.A. in English 1971; University of Guelph, Ontario, 1972-74, M.A. in English 1974. Career: Since 1975 professor of English, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Awards: Canada Council Arts grant, 1988, 1993; Newfoundland Arts Council Artist of the Year award, 1992…
Nationality: American. Born: Washington, D.C., 1946. Education: City College of New York, B.A. and M.A. 1976; Yale University, M.F.A. in drama 1979. Career: Assistant professor of communications, Fordham University, 1979-85; lecturer, Columbia University, 1977-91; lecturer, Princeton University, 1987-91; lecturer, New York University, 1989-91, 1994-95; Gertz Professor of Writing, Alfred University…
Nationality: American. Born: Fort Meade, Maryland, 1959. Education: Boston University, B.A. 1981. Career: Teaching assistant in physics department, Boston University, 1979; research assistant, Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa, 1978-79; researcher, Corporation for a Cleaner Commonwealth (environmental group), Boston, 1980; clerk in library, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1981-…
Nationality: American. Born: Brownsville, Texas, 1954. Education: Attended University of Texas at Austin, 1972-76. Career: Proofreader, Texas Legislative Council, Austin, 1977-83; writer, 1983—. Agent: Writers House, Inc., 21 West 26th Street, New York, New York 10010, U.S.A. Although Western culture is permeated with the narratives and iconography of science fiction, it is still relatively…
Nationality: American. Born: New York, 1928. Education: Columbia University, The New School for Social Research, Julliard School of Music. Military Service: United States Army Infantry, 1946-47: staff sergeant. Career: Senior vice-president, managing director, McCann-Erickson, Advertising, 1964-69; vice-president advertising and publicity, Warner Bros. Motion Pictures, 1969-71; vice-president east…
Nationality: American. Born: New York City, 1928. Education: Stuyvesant High School; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, B.A. 1947 (Phi Beta Kappa); Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, M.A. 1949; University of Iowa, Iowa City, Ph.D. 1954. Military Service: Served as an educational adviser, United States Army, 1951-52. Career: Lecturer, Jules Ferry College, Versailles, France, 1949…
Nationality: American. Born: Brooklyn, New York, 1937. Education: New York University, 1958-59; Stanford University, California (Stegner fellow, 1962). Military Service: Served in the United States Navy, 1955-58. Career: Editorial assistant, New York Daily News, 1958-60; writer-in-residence, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1971-72; taught at Amherst College, Massachusetts, 1972-75, 1977-78, Stan…
Nationality: Australian. Born: Geraldton, Western Australia, 1935. Education: Geraldton Primary School, 1941-47; Geraldton High School, 1948-49; Guildford Church of England Grammar School, Perth, 1950-52; St. George's College, University of Western Australia, Perth, 1953-56, B.A. in French and English 1956, further study, 1961; University of Sydney, 1958. Career: Storeman at an Anglican mis…
Nationality: American. Born: Riverside, California, 1960. Education: University of Southern California, B.A. 1981; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, M.F.A. 1984. Career: Teacher of gang members, dropouts and refugees, Inland Empire Job Corps, 1984-85; teacher of recent refugees from southeast Asia, Lao Family Community, 1985-86; teacher of English, Riverside City College, 1986-89; lecturer i…
Nationality: American. Born: Newport News, Virginia, 1925. Education: Christchurch School, Virginia; Davidson College, North Carolina, 1942-43; Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1943-44, 1946-47, B.A. 1947 (Phi Beta Kappa). Military Service: Served in the United States Marine Corps, 1944-45, 1951: 1st Lieutenant. Career: Associate editor, McGraw Hill, publishers, New York, 1947. Since 1952 …
Nationality: American. Born: Brooklyn, New York, 1932. Education: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, B.A. 1955; Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, M.A. 1957, Ph.D. in English 1962. Career: Lecturer, Brandeis University, 1956-57, and Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, 1961-62; part-time teacher, 1963-66; assistant professor of English, City College, New York, 1966-67, and Sarah L…
Nationality: Canadian. Born: Midland, Ontario, 1945. Education: Havergal College, early 1960s; McGill University, B.A. 1967. Career: Writer and performer in theatre, 1970s; creative writing teacher, York University, Toronto. Coming from a career in journalism and presently teaching at York University in Toronto, Canadian writer Susan Swan has produced three novels and two volumes of short pieces …
Nationality: British. Born: London, 1949. Education: Dulwich College, 1960-67; Queens' College, Cambridge, 1967-70, B.A., M.A.; York University, 1970-73. Lives in London. Awards: Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize, 1983; Guardian Fiction prize, 1983; Royal Society of Literature Winifred Holtby award, 1984; Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy), 1987; Prix du meilleur livre étranger (France), 1994;…
Nationality: American. Born: Oakland, California, 1952. Education: San Jose State University, California, B.A. in linguistics and English, 1973, M.A. in linguistics, 1974; University of California, Berkley, 1974-76. Career: Specialist in language development, Alameda County Association for Mentally Retarded, Oakland, 1976-80; project director, MORE Project, San Francisco, 1980-81; reporter, managi…
Has also written as Catherine Aydy. Nationality: British. Born: London, 1937. Education: St. Paul's Girls' School, London. Career: Travel correspondent, Queen, London, 1963; features editor, Vogue, London, 1966; editor, Bananas, London, 1975-78. Since 1982 general editor, In Verse, London; since 1985 editor, Lives of Modern Women series, Viking, publishers, London. Fellow, Royal Soci…
Nationality: British. Born: London, 1956. Education: Delhi University, B.A. (with honors) 1975; Tufts University, M.A. 1976; M.A.L.D. 1977; Ph.D. 1978. Career: Assistant to the director of external affairs, 1978-79, public information officer, 1980-81, head of Singapore office, 1981-84, senior external affairs officer, 1985-87, executive assistant to the deputy high commissioner, 1987-89, all Uni…