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Author Dan SimmonsDan 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. Discover Dan Simmons signed books and a list of his works below this biography!

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His website: www.dansimmons.com
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Endymion
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Endymion by Dan Simmons

The Fifth Heart:
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The Fifth Heart: A Sherlock Holmes Novel by Dan Simmons

The Abominable
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The Abominable by Dan Simmons

The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz
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The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz by Dan Simmons

Flashback
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Flashback by Dan Simmons

Summer of Night
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Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
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Dan Simmons Bibliography


Hyperion Cantos Series


  1. Hyperion - 1989
  2. The Fall of Hyperion - 1990
  3. Endymion - 1996
  4. The Rise of Endymion - 1997

Ilium/Olympos Series

  1. Ilium - 2003
  2. Olympos - 2005

Joe Kurtz Series

  1. Hardcase - 2001
  2. Hard Freeze - 2002
  3. Hard as Nails - 2003

Other Novels

  • Song of Kali - 1985
  • Carrion Comfort - 1989
  • Phases of Gravity - 1989
  • Entropy's Bed at Midnight - 1990
  • Prayers to Broken Stones - 1990
  • Summer of Night - 1991
  • Summer Sketches - 1992
  • Children of Night - 1992
  • Lovedeath - 1993
  • The Hollow Man - 1992
  • Fires of Eden - 1994
  • The Crook Factory - 1999
  • Darwin's Blade - 2000
  • A Winter Haunting - 2002
  • Worlds Enough & Time - 2002
  • The Terror - 2007
  • Muse of Fire - 2008
  • The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz - 2009
  • Drood - 2009
  • Black Hills - 2010
  • Flashback - 2011
  • The Abominable - 2013
  • The Fifth Heart - 2015
  • Endymion - 2015


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