James Morrow (Author)
James Kenneth Morrow (born March 17, 1947 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American science fiction writer. Morrow is married and has one son. He currently resides in the State College District in Pennsylvania.
Morrow is known for his satirical works that challenge organized religion as well as humanistic and atheistic viewpoints. An example of this is his 1990 World Fantasy Award- winning novel Only Begotten Daughter , in which Jesus' half-sister, daughter of God, is born into contemporary American culture.
His best-known work is the Godhead Trilogy , the first part of which Towing Jehovah (1994, Eng. "The God's Supper") also won the World Fantasy Award. Here the 2 mile long body of God floating in the sea has to be recovered on the secret order of the Vatican. The subsequent volumes are Blameless in Abaddon (1996) and The Eternal Footman (1999).
Morrow received the Nebula Award twice, in 1988 for the short story Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge , (German: "Biblical Stories for Adults No. 17: The Deluge", 1992) and 1991 for the novella City of Truth , (German: "The City of Truth", 1993).
Novels
- 1981 The Wine of Violence (German: "Der Wein des Frevels", Goldmann, 1983, translated by Eva Malsch)
- 1983 The Adventures of Smoke Bailey
- 1984 The Continent of Lies (German: "The Continent of Lies", Heyne, 1992, translated by Peter Robert)
- 1985 This Is the Way the World Ends (German: "This is how the world must end", Heyne, 1994, translated by Horst Pukallus )
- 1990 Only Begotten Daughter (German: "The native daughter", Heyne, 1992, translated by Christian Mähr )
- 1991 City of Truth (German: "The City of Truth", Heyne, 1993, translated by Irene Bonhorst)
- 1994 Towing Jehovah (German: "Das Gottesmahl", Heyne, 1999, translated by Horst Pukallus )
- 1996 Blameless in Abaddon
- 1999 The Eternal Footman
- 2006 The Last Witchfinder
- 2008 The Philosopher's Apprentice
- 2009 Shambling Towards Hiroshima
- 2014 The Madonna and the Starship
- 2015 Galápagos Regained
Web links
- Literature by and about James Morrow in the catalog of the German National Library
- James Morrow in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about James Morrow at Open Library
- James Morrow's homepage
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Morrow, James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morrow, James Kenneth (full name); Morrow James K. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American science fiction writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania |