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 gypt comprising The Solitudes originally published as gypt Love Sleep D monomania 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 pines la rose Tony Blair un mod le pour l Europe is a different author with the same name website You d assume that a great fantasist might have grander dreams than the rest of us so if anything the revelation here is that while there are some nocturnal epics he also gets just as many fragments of being lost impenetrable bureaucracy and spending time with someone who in the dream is known to be his wife even though it s not anyone he s ever encountered before Also and this is one I ve not seen noted so often the way the sleeper can sink through layers so you dream of watching a film and then without registering the shift you re in it or vice versa Paperback

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