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See AllWriter, poet, author, editor, and literary critic. Known for poetry and short stories, particularly tales of mystery and the macabre. Central figure of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States. Inventor of the detective fiction genre and a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.
Writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. Published in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and GQ. Contributed a weekly column, American Psyche, to The Guardian's weekend magazine.
Ted Chiang is an American speculative fiction writer. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan. He graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree. He currently works as a technical writer in the software industry and resides in Bellevue, near Seattle, Washington. He is a graduate of the noted Clarion Writers Workshop (1989).
Novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Notable works include the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and the true crime novel In Cold Blood.
American novelist and short story writer known for works that focus on history, morality, and religion.
Author raised in Brooklyn and the Bronx, New York City. Graduated from Columbia University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. A Lucky Man, his first book, explores themes of family relationships, love, loss, complex identity, and masculinity in New York City.