John Crowley

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John Crowley (2007)

John Michael Crowley (born December 1, 1942 in Presque Isle , Maine ) is an American writer, producer and screenwriter for documentary films , and lecturer at Yale University . His best-known work is the novel Little, Big (published 1981), which was awarded the World Fantasy Award for best novel.

Life

John Crowley was born in Presque Isle, Maine in 1942. His father was an air force officer. Crowley grew up in Vermont , Kentucky and Indiana . He attended high school and graduated from Indiana University . After graduating from university, he moved to New York to make films, which he still does to this day. He published his first novel in 1975 and has been teaching at Yale University since 1993 .

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Crowley's first published novels were science fiction : The Deep (1975) and Beasts (1976). Engine Summer (1979) was nominated for the American Book Award in 1980 and was included in David Pringle's 100 Best Science Fiction Novels .

1981 appeared Little, Big , a novel of which Ursula K. Le Guin said that it calls for a redefinition of fantasy ("calls for a redefinition of fantasy").

In 1980, Crowley began writing a four-volume novel called Egypt . He called the individual parts of the series The Solitudes (originally: Egypt ), Love & Sleep , Dæmonomania, and Endless Things . The work was published in 2007.

Other novels by John Crowley include The Translator and Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land , a book that itself contains a fictional novel. A short story called The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines was published in 2002. With Little, Big and the Egyptian cycle in particular , Crowley is an important representative of slipstream literature in science fiction.

Crowley's short stories are published in three volumes: Novelty (including Great Work of Time , for which Crowley received the World Fantasy Award ), Antiquities, and Novelties & Souvenirs . A collection of his essays and book reviews came out in 2007 under the title In Other Words .

In 1989, Crowley and his wife, Laurie Block, founded Straight Ahead Pictures to produce American history and culture for film, radio and the Internet. Crowley also writes scripts for short films and documentaries. His work has received several awards and has been shown at film festivals such as the New York Film Festival and the Berlinale . His scripts include works such as The World of Tomorrow (about the 1939 World's Fair), The Hindenburg, and FIT: Episodes in the History of the Body (about American fitness culture, with Laurie Block).

A pen pal with literary critic Harold Bloom led Crowley to teach at Yale University on utopian literature , creative writing, and screenwriting since 1993 .

criticism

“Comparisons between Engine Summer and Davy by Edgar Pangborn are obvious and have already been drawn elsewhere. They are correct insofar as the book is as deeply influenced by a humanism as Pangborn's work, and yet Engine Summer is something different, new, Crowley's masterful stylistic empathy alone ensures that, and his literary talent, which most of his colleagues far leaves behind ... a fancy, unique book that you should have read. "

- Joachim Körber on the machine summer

Awards

bibliography

Egypt (novels)
  • 1 Egypt (1987; also: The Solitudes , 2007)
    • German: Egypt. Translated by Hannah Harders. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-10-013104-5 .
  • 2 Love & Sleep (1994)
  • 3 Dæmonomania (2000)
  • 4 Endless Things: A Part of Egypt (2007)
Novels
  • The Deep (1975)
    • German: In the depth. Translated by Irene Holicki. Heyne SF&F # 3821, 1981, ISBN 3-453-30723-2 .
  • Beasts (1975)
  • Engine Summer (1979)
    • German: machine summer. Translated by Irene Holicki. Heyne SF&F # 3932, 1982, ISBN 3-453-30857-3 .
  • Little, Big (1981)
    • English: Little Big or The Parliament of the Fairies. Translated by Thomas Lindquist. S. Fischer, 1984, ISBN 3-10-013102-9 . Also called: The Parliament of the Fairies. With a foreword by Dietmar Dath . Translated by Thomas Lindquist. Piper # 6517, Munich and Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-492-26517-0 .
  • The Great Work of Time (1991)
  • The Translator (2002)
  • Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land (2005)
  • Four Freedoms (2009)
  • The Chemical Wedding by Christian Rosencreutz: A Romance in Eight Days (2016)
  • Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr (2017)
    • German: KA: The realm of the crows. Translated by Annette von Charpentier. Golkonda (General Series # 245), 2018, ISBN 978-3-946503-45-3 .
Collections
  • Novelty (1989)
  • Antiquities (1990)
  • Beasts / Engine Summer / Little, Big (1991, collective edition)
  • Three Novels (1994, collective edition of Engine Summer , The Deep and Beasts ; also: Otherwise: Three Novels , 2002)
  • Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction (2004)
  • Totalitopia plus "This Is Our Town" and "Everything That Rises" and "Paul Park's Hidden Worlds" and "I Did Crash a Few Parties": Outspoken Interview and Much More (2017)
  • And Go Like This (2019)
Short stories

1975:

  • Beasts (1975, excerpt)
    • German: Sphinx. Translated by Hans Maeter. In: Manfred Kluge (Ed.): The universe of fantasy. Heyne (General Series # 6598), 1982, ISBN 3-453-02193-2 .

1977:

  • Antiquities (1977, in: Stuart David Schiff (Ed.): Whispers: An Anthology of Fantasy and Horror )

1978:

  • Where Spirits Gat Them Home (1978, in: Charles L. Grant (Ed.): Shadows )
  • Her Bounty to the Dead (1978)

1980:

  • The Reason for the Visit (1980, in: Ursula K. Le Guin and Virginia Kidd (Eds.): Interfaces )

1981:

  • The Green Child (1981, in: Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold (Eds.): Elsewhere )

1982:

  • Little, Big (in: Science Fiction Digest, January-February 1982 , excerpt)

1983:

  • Novelty (in: Interzone, # 5 Autumn 1983 )

1985:

1989:

  • Great Work of Time (1989, in: John Crowley: Novelty )
  • In Blue (1989, in: John Crowley: Novelty )
  • The Nightingale Sings at Night (1989, in: John Crowley: Novelty )
  • Great Work of Time (1989)

1990:

  • Missolonghi 1824 (in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, March 1990 )

1993:

  • Exogamy (1993, in: Ellen Datlow (Ed.): Omni Best Science Fiction Three )

1996:

1997:

  • Lost and Abandoned (1997, in: Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (Eds.): Black Swan, White Raven )

2000:

  • An Earthly Mother Sits and Sings (2000)

2002:

  • The War Between the Objects and the Subjects (2002, in: William Schafer and Bill Sheehan (Eds.): JK Potter's Embrace the Mutation )
  • The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines (2002, in: Peter Straub and Bradford Morrow (Eds.): Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists )

2006:

  • Spotlight on Little, Big (2006, in: John Crowley: Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land )

2008:

  • Conversation Hearts (2008)

2011:

  • And Go Like This (2011, in: Ellen Datlow (Ed.): Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy )

2016:

  • The Million Monkeys of M. Borel (2016, in: Bradford Morrow and Elizabeth Hand (Eds.): Other Aliens )

2017:

  • In the Tom Mix Museum (2017, in: John Crowley: Totalitopia )
  • This Is Our Town (2017, in: John Crowley: Totalitopia )
  • Spring Break (2017, in: Amy Bloom (Ed.): New Haven Noir )
  • Ka (in: Lightspeed, October 2017 )

2018:

  • Flint and Mirror (2018, in: Gardner Dozois (Ed.): The Book of Magic )
Anthologies
  • The Haunted Dusk (1983; with Charles L. Crow and Howard Kerr)
Non-fiction
  • In Other Words (2007)
  • Reading Backwards (2019)

Filmography

  • 1979 America Lost and Found
  • 1980 The Hindenberg: Ship of Doom
  • 1980 flashback
  • 1983 No Place to Hide
  • 1984 America and Lewis Hine
  • 1984 The World of Tomorrow
  • 1986 Are We Winning Mommy? America & the Cold War (German: Will we win, Mama? - America and the Cold War )
  • 1987 A $ 10 Horse and a $ 40 Saddle
  • 1991 with Laurie Block: Fit: Episodes in the History of the Body
  • 1991 Pearl Harbor: Surprise and Remembrance
  • 1991 American Experience
  • 1992 Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
  • 1995 Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
  • 1995 The Gate of Heavenly Peace
  • 1995 Frontline
  • 2003 Morning Sun

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A Working Canon of Slipstream Writings , compiled at Readercon July 18, 2007 (PDF), accessed on October 5, 2018.
  2. ^ John Crowley - Senior Lecturer in English, Creative Writing
  3. ↑ See Heyne Science Fiction Magazin # 10 , ed. by Wolfgang Jeschke , Munich 1984, ISBN 3-453-31048-9 , p. 272 ​​ff.
personal data
SURNAME Crowley, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crowley, John Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, producer, and screenwriter for documentaries
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Presque Isle , Maine