Author Biography and Bibliography

Jack Dann has written or edited over sixty-five books, including the international bestseller The Memory Cathedral, which is published in over ten languages and was #1 on The Age Bestseller list. The San Francisco Chronicle called it "a grand accomplishment," Kirkus Reviews thought it was "an impressive accomplishment," and True Review said, "Read this important novel, be challenged by it; you literally haven't seen anything like it." His novel The Silent has been compared to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn; Library Journal chose it as one of their "Hot Picks" and wrote: "This is narrative storytelling at its best—so highly charged emotionally as to constitute a kind of poetry from hell. Most emphatically recommended."

Dann's work has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, Castaneda, J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, and Mark Twain. He is a recipient of the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Australian Aurealis Award (twice), the Ditmar Award (three times), the Peter McNamara Achievement Award, and the Premios Gilgames de Narrativa Fantastica award. He has also been honoured by the Mark Twain Society (Esteemed Knight). His novel Bad Medicine (retitled Counting Coup in the U.S.) has been described by The Courier Mail as "perhaps the best road novel since the Easy Rider Days." Booklist wrote of Dann's retrospective short story collection Jubilee: "This is literary sf of the best sort. Lay in extra copies to accommodate readers taking it slowly and luxuriously."

Dann's latest novel, The Rebel: An Imagined Life of James Dean, is published by HarperCollins Flamingo in Australia and Morrow in the U.S. The West Australian called it "an amazingly evocative and utterly convincing picture of the era, down to details of the smells and sensations—and even more importantly, the way of thinking." Locus wrote: "The Rebel is a significant and very gripping novel, a welcome addition to Jack Dann's growing oeuvre of speculative historical novels, sustaining further his long-standing contemplation of the modalities of myth and memory. This is alternate history with passion and difference."

Dann is also the co-editor of the groundbreaking anthology of Australian stories, Dreaming Down-Under, which won the World Fantasy Award in 1999. He edits the Magic Tales anthology series with Gardner Dozois, and his anthology Gathering the Bones, of which he is a co-editor, was included in Library Journal's Best Genre Fiction of 2003 and was shortlisted for The World Fantasy Award.

Jack Dann lives in Australia on a farm overlooking the sea and "commutes" back and forth to Los Angeles and New York.

For more information: www.jackdann.com





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