Author Biography and Bibliography John Grant is the regular writing name of Paul Barnett. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he has been a resident of the Unites States for the past five and a half years, ever since marrying Pamela D. Scoville, Director of the Animation Art Guild. They currently live in northern New Jersey with four cats and a profusion of outdoor wildlife. Recently described as "the best-kept secret in sf/fantasy," he is the author of some sixty books, mostly as John Grant but with a few under other names, including his own. He has somewhat lost track of the number of short stories he's published, but is pretty certain it's fewer than the number of books. His first story collection, Take No Prisoners, has recently been published by Willowgate Press. Under his own name, he was for the better part of a decade the Commissioning Editor of Paper Tiger, the world's leading fantasy art book publisher. For the past few years he has been US Reviews Editor of Infinity Plus and a Consultant Editor to AAPPL (Artists' & Photographers' Press Ltd. He won a 2002 Chesley Award and was nominated for a 2003 World Fantasy Award for his work with Paper Tiger; in 2002, two of his Paper Tiger "babies" were nominated for a Hugo, The Art of Richard Powers, by Jane Frank, and The Art of Chesley Bonestell (which won), by Ron Miller and Frederick C. Durant III. As John Grant, he shared a 1994 British Science Fiction Association Special Award for his work on the Clute/Nicholls Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. In 1998 he and John Clute received, for their Encyclopedia of Fantasy, the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, the Mythopoeic Society Scholarship Award, and the J. Lloyd Eaton Scholarship Award. His fiction Dragonhenge, illustrated by Bob Eggleton, was nominated for a 2003 Hugo Award, and his nonfiction The Chesley Awards: A Retrospective, done with Elizabeth Humphrey and Pamela D. Scoville, won a 2004 Hugo Award. His most recent novel, The Dragons of Manhattan, was written as a serial for the global-journalism website Blue Ear in the fall of 2003. Photograph by Pamela D. Scoville/Animation Art Guild.