John Crowley

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December 01, 1942 in Presque Isle, Maine, The United States

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John Crowley was born in Presque Isle, Maine, in 1942; his father was then an officer in the US Army Air Corps. He grew up in Vermont, northeastern Kentucky and (for the longest stretch) Indiana, where he went to high school and college. He moved to New York City after college to make movies, and did find work in documentary films, an occupation he still pursues. He published his first novel (The Deep) in 1975, and his 15th volume of fiction (Endless Things) in 2007. Since 1993 he has taught creative writing at Yale University. In 1992 he received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts...more Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

John Crowley was born in Presque Isle, Maine, in 1942; his father was then an officer in the US Army Air Corps. He grew up in Vermont, northeastern Kentucky and (for the longest stretch) Indiana, where he went to high school and college. He moved to New York City after college to make movies, and did find work in documentary films, an occupation he still pursues. He published his first novel (The Deep) in 1975, and his 15th volume of fiction (Endless Things) in 2007. Since 1993 he has taught creative writing at Yale University. In 1992 he received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
His first published novels were science fiction: The Deep (1975) and Beasts (1976). Engine Summer (1979) was nominated for the 1980 American Book Award; it appears in David Pringle’s 100 Best Science Fiction Novels.
In 1981 came Little, Big, which Ursula Le Guin described as a book that “all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy.”
In 1980 Crowley embarked on an ambitious four-volume novel, Ægypt, comprising The Solitudes (originally published as Ægypt), Love & Sleep, Dæmonomania, and Endless Things, published in May 2007. This series and Little, Big were cited when Crowley received the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature.
He is also the recipient of an Ingram Merrill Foundation grant. His recent novels are The Translator, recipient of the Premio Flaianno (Italy), and Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land, which contains an entire imaginary novel by the poet. A novella, The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, appeared in 2002. A museum-quality 25th anniversary edition of Little, Big, featuring the art of Peter Milton and a critical introduction by Harold Bloom, is in preparation.

Note: The John Crowley who wrote Sans épines, la rose: Tony Blair, un modèle pour l'Europe? is a different author with the same name. (website)(less)

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Gnostic Dick

Simon Critchley (who in the photograph attached to his series unnervingly resembles the Satanist Anton LaVey, but so do a lot of people) is running a series on the OpEd page of the NYTimes about Philip K. Dick (or PKD as his fans and adulators know him) as a Gnostic philosopher. As Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy, he knows whereof he speaks. Interesting without being exactly earthshaking (a... read more »

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Books by John Crowley

Average rating: 3.89 · 7,749 ratings · 1,217 reviews · 54 distinct works

	Little, Big 3.98 avg rating — 2,889 ratings — published 1981 — 27 editions	My rating:
	Aegypt (The Aegypt Cycle, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 630 ratings — published 1987 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Engine Summer 4.14 avg rating — 395 ratings — published 1979 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Translator 3.71 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Love & Sleep (The Aegypt Cycle, #2) 4.12 avg rating — 316 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Daemonomania (The Aegypt Cycle, #3) 4.08 avg rating — 259 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land 3.55 avg rating — 223 ratings — 10 editions	My rating:
	Endless Things (The Aegypt Cycle, #4) 4.05 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Beasts 3.53 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 1976 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Four Freedoms: A Novel 3.56 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:

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The Aegypt Cycle (4 books)
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“The further in you go, the bigger it gets.”
― John Crowley, Little, Big

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“The things that make us happy make us wise. ”
― John Crowley, Little, Big

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“Love is a myth.'
'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.'
'What?'
'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer.”
― John Crowley, Little, Big

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NOVEMBER FANTASY: This poll decides which novel will be our November Fantasy Book of the Month.

Little, Big by John Crowley

18 votes, 32.1%

The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre

13 votes, 23.2%

Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal

10 votes, 17.9%

Greenmantle by Charles de Lint

8 votes, 14.3%

Resurrection Man by Sean Stewart

7 votes, 12.5%

56 total votes

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