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John Kessel

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September 24, 1950 in Buffalo, New York, The United States

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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.

Average rating: 3.79 · 2,062 ratings · 306 reviews · 49 distinct works

	The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories 3.71 avg rating — 94 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Corrupting Dr. Nice 3.35 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Good News from Outer Space 3.72 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Pure Product 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka by John Kessel (editor), James Patrick Kelly (Goodreads Author) (editor) 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Meeting in Infinity 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology by John Kessel, Mark L. Van Name, Richard Butner 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Stories For Men 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender's Game, Intention, and Morality 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	My rating:
	Nebula Awards Showcase 12 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating: