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John Kessel

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born

in Buffalo, New York, The United States

September 24, 1950

gender

male

website

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/index2.html

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

influences

Herman Melville, Franz Kafka, Flannery O’Connor, Tobias Wolff, Alfred ...more

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John (Joseph Vincent) Kessel co-directs the creative writing program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. A winner of the Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, and Tiptree Awards, his books include Good News From Outer Space, Corrupting Dr. Nice, The Pure Product, and The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories. His story collection Meeting in Infinity was a New York Times Notable Book. Most recently, with James Patrick Kelly he has edited the anthologies Feeling Very Strange, Rewired, The Secret History of Science Fiction and Kafkaesque. Born in Buffalo, NY, Kessel has a PhD in American Literature, has been an NEA Fellow, and for twenty years has been one of the organizers of the Sycamore Hill Writers Workshop.

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Average rating: 3.87 · 4,109 ratings · 534 reviews · 83 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories 3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 109 ratings — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Corrupting Dr. Nice 3.37 of 5 stars 3.37 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good News from Outer Space 3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pure Product 4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka by John Kessel (editor), James Patrick Kelly (Goodreads Author) (editor) 3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meeting in Infinity 3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1992	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology by John Kessel, Mark L. Van Name, Richard Butner 4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender's Game, Intention, and Morality 4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2004	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Another Orphan 4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2003	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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