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VJ Books Presents Dan Simmons! Dan Simmons was born in Peoria, Illinois, in 1948, and grew up in various cities and small towns in the Midwest, including Brimfield, Illinois, which was the source of his fictional "Elm Haven" in Summer of Night and A Winter Haunting. Dan received a B.A. in English from Wabash College in 1970, winning a national Phi Beta Kappa Award during his senior year for excellence in fiction, journalism and art.
Dan received his Masters in Education from Washington University in St. Louis in 1971. He then worked in elementary education for 18 years -- 2 years in Missouri, 2 years in Buffalo, New York -- one year as a specially trained BOCES "resource teacher" and another as a sixth-grade teacher -- and 14 years in Colorado.
His last four years in teaching were spent creating, coordinating, and teaching in APEX, an extensive gifted/talented program serving 19 elementary schools and some 15,000 potential students.
He also worked as a national language-arts consultant, sharing his own "Writing Well" curriculum which he had created for his own classroom. Whenever someone says "writing can't be taught," Dan begs to differ and has the track record to prove it. Since becoming a full-time writer, Dan likes to visit college writing classes, and has taught in New Hampshire's Odyssey writing program for adults.
Dan's first published story appeared on Feb. 15, 1982, the day his daughter, Jane Kathryn, was born. He's always attributed that coincidence to "helping in keeping things in perspective when it comes to the relative importance of writing and life."
Dan is one of the few novelists whose work spans the genres of fantasy, science fiction, horror, suspense, historical fiction, noir crime fiction, and mainstream literary fiction. His books are published in 27 foreign counties as well as the U.S. and Canada.
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Dan Simmons Bibliography (Partial List)
Novels and Collections
· Song of Kali 1985
· Phases of Gravity 1989
· Carrion Comfort 1989
· Hyperion 1989
· The Fall of Hyperion 1990
· Entropy's Bed at Midnight 1990
· Prayers to Broken Stones 1990
· Summer of Night 1991
· The Hollow Man 1992
· Children of the Night 1992
· Summer Sketches 1992
· Lovedeath 1993
· Fires of Eden 1995
· Endymion 1996
· The Rise of Endymion 1997
· The Crook Factory 1999
· Darwin's Blade 2000
· Hardcase 2001
· A Winter Haunting 2002
· Worlds Enough and Time 2002
· Hard Freeze 2002
· Ilium 2003
· Hard As Nails 2003
· Olympos 2005
· Song of Kali: 20th Anniversary Edition 2005
· The Terror 2007
· Drood 2009
· Black Hills 2010
· Phases of Gravity 2011
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