Kevin J. Anderson, was born March 27, 1962, and raised in small town Oregon, Wisconsin, south of Madison. He is the author of more than ninety novels, 43 of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists. He has over 20 million books in print in thirty languages. He has won or been nominated for numerous prestigious awards, including the Nebula Award, Bram Stoker Award, the SFX Reader’s Choice Award, the American Physics Society’s Forum Award, and New York Times Notable Book. By any measure, he is one of the most popular writers currently working in the science fiction genre.

After he had published ten of his own science fiction novels to wide critical acclaim, he came to the attention of Lucasfilm, and was offered the chance at writing Star Wars novels. Along the way he also collected over 750 rejection slips, and a trophy as "The Writer With No Future" because he could produce more rejection slips by weight than any other writer at an entire conference. When asked for advice about how to be a successful writer, he answers quickly: PERSISTENCE!

Anderson has coauthored eight prequels and sequels to Frank Herbert's classic Dune, with Herbert's son Brian. The initial deal with Bantam Books was the largest single science fiction contract in publishing history. The first novel, Dune: House Atreides became a #1 international bestseller and was voted "Book of the Year" by the members of the Science Fiction Book Club by the largest margin in the history of the award. All of the subsequent Dune novels have also been bestsellers, each one peaking even higher on the lists; the most recent, Hunters of Dune, hit #3 on the New York Times bestseller list. For Hunters, he and Brian signed and numbered 10,000 copies of the hardcover. Anderson's weblog running on the official "Dune" site, www.dunenovels.com, received 2.5 million hits per month.

His STAR WARS "Jedi Academy" books were the three top-selling SF novels of 1994. His three original STAR WARS anthologies -- Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, Tales from Jabba's Palace, and Tales of the Bounty Hunters -- are the best-selling science fiction anthologies of all time. He has also completed numerous other projects for Lucasfilm, including the 14-volumes in the bestselling and award-winning Young Jedi Knights series (co-written with his wife Rebecca Moesta). Anderson is the author of three hardcover novels based on the X-Files; all became international bestsellers, the first of which reached #1 on the London Sunday Times.

He has also coauthored a major bestseller with Dean Koontz, Prodigal Son, as well as his ambitious science fiction epic, "The Saga of Seven Suns" (seven volumes), and original novels Hopscotch, Captain Nemo, The Martian War, Blindfold, Ill Wind (with Doug Beason), and many others. In 1997, during a promotional tour for his comedy/adventure novel Ai! Pedrito!, Anderson set the Guinness World Record for "Largest Single-Author Book Signing."

He is an avid hiker and camper, doing much of his writing with a hand-held tape recorder while on long walks in Death Valley, the redwoods, or the Rocky Mountains. He is also a great fan of fine microbrews. He and his wife, author Rebecca Moesta, currently reside near Monument, Colorado.