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Ben Loory
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July 11, 1971
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| gender |
male |
| place of birth |
Dover, New Jersey |
| website |
http://www.benloory.com |
| genre |
Literature & Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy
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| influences |
[a:Aesop|12452|Aesop|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1219179559p2/12452.jpg], [a:Franz Kafka|5223|Franz Kafka|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1287463493p2/5223.jpg], [a:P.G. Wodehouse|7963|P.G. Wodehouse|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198684105p2/7963.jpg], [a:Richard Brautigan|7970|Richard Brautigan|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1270930283p2/7970.jpg], [a:Philip K. Dick|4764|Philip K. Dick|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1264613853p2/4764.jpg] |
about this author
Ben Loory's fables and tales have appeared in The New Yorker, Gargoyle Magazine, and The Antioch Review, and been heard on NPR's This American Life and at Selected Shorts. His book Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (Penguin, 2011) was a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program and the Starbucks Coffee Bookish Reading Club, and was named one of the 10 Best Fiction Books of the Year by the Hudson Booksellers retail chain.
"This guy can write!" –Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451
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