John Kessel
Born	September 24, 1950 Buffalo, New York
Occupation	Writer, editor
Nationality	American
Writing period	1978—Present
Genres	Science fiction, fantasy
Notable work(s)	"Another Orphan" (1982) '"Buffalo" (1991) "Pride and Prometheus" (2008)
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John Kessel (b. 24 September 1950 in Buffalo, New York) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. He is a prolific short story author with several longer works to his credit. He won a Nebula Award in 1982 for his novella "Another Orphan," in which the protagonist finds himself living inside the novel Moby-Dick, and a second in 2009 for his novelette "Pride and Prometheus," a story melding the tales of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The intervening 27 years was the longest gap between competitive awards in Nebula history. His short story "Buffalo" won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and the Locus poll in 1992. His novella "Stories for Men" shared the 2002 James Tiptree Award for science fiction dealing with gender issues with M. John Harrison's novel Light. He also is a widely published science fiction and fantasy critic, and organizes the Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop.

Having obtained a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas in 1981, Kessel has taught classes in American literature, science fiction, fantasy, and fiction writing at North Carolina State University since 1982. He was named as the first director of the MFA Creative Writing Program at NCSU and currently shares the directorship of creative writing with Wilton Barnhardt.

In 2007, his play, "A Clean Escape" was adapted for ABC's science fiction anthology series Masters of Science Fiction.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Novels 1.2 Novellas 1.3 Plays 1.4 Short story collections 1.5 Anthologies 1.6 Other Notable Stories 1.7 As Editor 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Novels

• 1985 Freedom Beach (with James Patrick Kelly)
• 1989 Good News From Outer Space (Nebula Award Nominee)
• 1997 Corrupting Dr. Nice

[edit] Novellas

• 1989 Another Orphan

[edit] Plays

• 1986 A Clean Escape
• 1994 Faustfeathers (Paul Green Playwrights' Prize Winner)

[edit] Short story collections

• 1992 Meeting in Infinity (World Fantasy Award Nominee)
• 1997 The Pure Product
• 2008 The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories

[edit] Anthologies

• 1996 Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology (with Mark L. Van Name and Richard Butner)
• 2006 Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (with James Patrick Kelly) Features stories by Aimee Bender, Michael Chabon, Ted Chiang, Carol Emshwiller, Jeffrey Ford, Karen Joy Fowler, Theodora Goss, Jonathan Lethem, Kelly Link, M. Rickert, Benjamin Rosenbaum, George Saunders, Bruce Sterling, Jeff VanderMeer, and Howard Waldrop
• 2007 Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (coedited with James Patrick Kelly) (Tachyon Publications, 2007)
• 2009 The Secret History of Science Fiction (coedited with James Patrick Kelly) (Tachyon Publications)

[edit] Other Notable Stories

• 1982 "Another Orphan" (September, Fantasy and Science Fiction) - Nebula Award Winner
• 1988 "Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner" (June, Asimov's SF) - Nebula Award Nominee
• 1991 "Buffalo" (January, Fantasy and Science Fiction) - Sturgeon Award Winner, Locus Award Winner, Hugo Award Nominee, Nebula Award Nominee^[1]
• 1993 "The Franchise" (August, Asimov's SF) - Nebula Award nominee, Hugo Award nominee, novelette
• 1996 "The Miracle of Ivar Avenue" (from Intersections) - Nebula Award nominee, novelette
• 1998 "Every Angel is Terrifying" (October-November, Fantasy and Science Fiction) - World Fantasy Award nominee
• 1999 "Ninety Percent of Everything" with Jonathan Lethem and James Patrick Kelly (September, Fantasy and Science Fiction) - Nebula Award nominee, novella
• 2002 "Stories for Men" (October-November, Asimov's SF) - James Tiptree Jr. Award Winner, Nebula Award Nominee
• 2008 "Pride and Prometheus" (January Fantasy and Science Fiction) - Nebula Award winner, Hugo Award nominee, novelette; World Fantasy Award nominee, Short Story

[edit] As Editor

• 1996 Intersections (with Mark L. Van Name and Richard Butner)
• 1998 Memory's Tailor (by Laurence Rudner. Kessel was the literary executor after Rudner's death in 1995.)
• 2006 Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (with James Patrick Kelly) Features stories by Aimee Bender, Michael Chabon, Ted Chiang, Carol Emshwiller, Jeffrey Ford, Karen Joy Fowler, Theodora Goss, Jonathan Lethem, Kelly Link, M. Rickert, Benjamin Rosenbaum, George Saunders, Bruce Sterling, Jeff VanderMeer, and Howard Waldrop
• 2007 Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (coedited with James Patrick Kelly) (Tachyon Publications)
• 2009 The Secret History of Science Fiction (coedited with James Patrick Kelly) (Tachyon Publications)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• John Kessel's home page
• John Kessel at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• An Interview with John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly conducted by John Joseph Adams
• An interview with John Kessel conducted by Fiona Kelleghan writing as Ellen Feehan
• Free download of The Baum Plan for Financial Independence from the publisher
• John Kessel at the Internet Movie Database