JACK DANNis a multiple-award winning author who has written or edited over seventy-five books, including the international bestseller The Memory Cathedral, which was #1 on The Age Bestseller list, and The Silent, which Library Journal chose as one of their ‘Hot Picks’ and wrote: “This is narrative storytelling at its best… Most emphatically recommended.” Dann lives in Australia on a farm overlooking the sea and “commutes” back and forth to Los Angeles and New York.
25 July 2012
Shirley Jackson Award win...
Jack's anthology Ghosts by Gaslight, co-edited with Nick Gevers, has just won the 2011 Shirley Jackson Award for best edited anthology. For more information on the award and winners, see: http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/sja_2011_winners.php
Jack Dann's work has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, Castaneda, Ray Bradbury, J. G. Ballard, Mark Twain, and Philip K. Dick. Library Journal has called him “a true poet who can create pictures with a few perfect words” and Best Sellers said, “Jack Dann is a mind-warlock whose magicks will confound, disorient, shock, and delight.”