Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz was born on July 9, 1945 in Everett, Pennsylvania. He received a degree in education from Shippensburg State College in 1967. A former high school English teacher as well as a teacher-counselor with the Appalachian Poverty Program, he began writing as a child to escape an ugly home life näytä lisää caused by his alcoholic father. A prolific writer at a young age, he had sold a dozen novels by the age of 25. Early in his career, he wrote under numerous pen names including David Axton, Brian Coffey, K. R. Dwyer, Leigh Nichols, Richard Paige, and Owen West. He is best known for the books written under his own name, many of which are bestsellers, including Midnight, Cold Fire, The Bad Place, Hideaway, The Husband, Odd Hours, 77 Shadow Street, Innocence, The City, Saint Odd, and The Silent Corner. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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The Frankenstein Series 5-Book Bundle: Frankenstein: Prodigal Son, City of Night, Dead and Alive, Lost Souls, The Dead… (2010) 44 kappaletta
The Snake Eaters: An Unlikely Band of Brothers and the Battle for the Soul of Iraq (2012) 33 kappaletta
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The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas / Forever Odd / Brother Odd / Odd Hours / Odd Apocalypse / Odd… (2016) 25 kappaletta
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Mountain Witness 16 kappaletta
Ride the Storm (Moonlight Bay #3) 13 kappaletta
Dean Koontz Thriller Novella Collection: Darkness Under the Sun, Demon Seed, The Moonlit Mind (2014) 8 kappaletta
Down in the Darkness 7 kappaletta
Dean Koontz's Sole survivor. pt. 1 6 kappaletta
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Mike Tucker und der Maya- Fries / ... alias Mike Tucker / Mike Tucker auf Tauchstation. (1988) 5 kappaletta
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein 4-Book Bundle: Frankenstein: Prodigal Son, City of Night, Dead and Alive, Lost Souls (2011) 5 kappaletta
Fremmede 1. del 4 kappaletta
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we three 2 kappaletta
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THE MYSTERY OF HIS FLESH in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1970. (1970) 2 kappaletta
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Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction, Volume 3: Supermen (1948) — Avustaja — 123 kappaletta
Children of Infinity: Original Science Fiction Stories for Young Readers (1973) — Avustaja — 44 kappaletta
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1970, Vol. 39, No. 1 (1970) — Avustaja — 17 kappaletta
Outoja tarinoita. 3 / toim. Markku Sadelehto ; [suomennos: Ulla Selkälä ja Ossi Hiekkanen] (1991) — Avustaja — 16 kappaletta
Australian Reader's Digest Select Editions: Under Orders / The Husband / Scared to Live / Orbit (2007) 15 kappaletta
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Androids, Time Machines and Blue Giraffes: A Panorama of Science Fiction (1973) — Avustaja — 11 kappaletta
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Great Mysteries Great Writers: Lucky Day / Trapped / Pastime / Snagged / Dealer's Choice (1994) — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta
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Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Koontz, Dean Ray
- Muut nimet
- Coffey, Brian
Nichols, Leigh
West, Owen
Wolfe, Aaron
Allan, W.H.
Axton, David (näytä kaikki 11)
Dwyer, Deanna
Dwyer, K.R.
Hill, John
North, Anthony
Paige, Richard - Syntymäaika
- 1945-07-09
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Everett, Pennsylvania, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Newport Beach, California, USA
- Koulutus
- Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania (1967)
- Ammatit
- author
- Organisaatiot
- Canine Companions for Independence
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- World Horror Convention Grand Master Award (1996)
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945) is an American author. His novels are billed as suspense thrillers, but frequently incorporate elements of horror, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and satire. Many of his books have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, with 14 hardcovers and 16 paperbacks reaching the number-one position. Koontz wrote under a number of pen names earlier in his career, including "David Axton", "Deanna Dwyer", "K.R. Dwyer", "Leigh Nichols" and "Brian Coffey". He has published over 105 novels, a number of novellas and collections of short stories, and has sold over 450 million copies of his work.
Koontz was born on July 9, 1945, in Everett, Pennsylvania, the son of Florence (née Logue) and Raymond Koontz. He has said that he was regularly beaten and abused by his alcoholic father, which influenced his later writing, as also did the courage of his physically diminutive mother in standing up to her husband. In his senior year at Shippensburg State College, he won a fiction competition sponsored by Atlantic Monthly magazine. After graduation in 1967, he went to work as an English teacher at Mechanicsburg High School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. In the 1960s, Koontz worked for the Appalachian Poverty Program, a federally funded initiative designed to help poor children. In a 1996 interview with Reason magazine, he said that while the program sounded "very noble and wonderful, ... in reality, it was a dumping ground for violent children ... and most of the funding ended up 'disappearing somewhere.'" This experience greatly shaped Koontz's political outlook. In his book, The Dean Koontz Companion, he recalled that he
"... realized that most of these programs are not meant to help anyone, merely to control people and make them dependent. I was forced to reconsider everything I'd once believed. I developed a profound distrust of government regardless of the philosophy of the people in power. I remained a liberal on civil-rights issues, became a conservative on defense, and a semi-libertarian on all other matters."
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