Skip to main content

John Crowley ( American fantasy, SF and historical fiction author)

Sort Name
Crowley, John
Ratings
No reviews
Type
Person
Gender
Male
Date of birth
1942-12-01
Place of birth
United States

Wikipedia

John Crowley (born December 1, 1942) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, and non-fiction. Crowley studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer.

Crowley is best known as the author of Little, Big (1981), a work which received World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and has been called "a neglected masterpiece" by Harold Bloom, and his Ægypt series of novels which revolve around the same themes of Hermeticism, memory, families and religion. Some of his nonfiction writing has appeared bimonthly in Harper's Magazine in the form of his "Easy Chair" column, which ended in 2016.

Continue reading at Wikipedia... Wikipedia content provided under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-SA license

Last Modified
2024-01-11