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Dan Simmons was born in 1948 in Peoria, Illinois, and decided he wanted to be a writer within a decade of his natal event. He attended Wabash College, graduating in 1970 with a degree in English and a background in polite radicalism through his underground literary journal the Satyr. Simmons published his first novel 15 years later; Song of Kali promptly won the World Fantasy Award and is among the internet's top 100 horror novels of all time. In 1989, Simmons presented Hyperion, a science fiction novel with its roots in Chaucer and its name taken from a Romance-era poem by John Keats. The book was awarded the prestigious Hugo for best novel. Simmons's literary-mindedness is evident in much of his work, not the least of which is his resurrection of Keats in Hyperion's sequel, The Fall of Hyperion, and his continuation of the poet's work in the third novel, Endymion . Simmons recently completed the fourth Hyperion book, published in September of this year and titled The Rise of Endymion . He lives in Longmont, Colorado with his wife, Karen, and their daughter Jane.
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Dan Simmons' Bibliography at the Horror Literature Page Review of Carrion Comfort A very good, very in-depth fan page A
Visit With Dan Simmons at Bantam Doubleday Dell
Online Review of Endymion Review
of Phases Dan
Simmons' Bibliography at
Locus Reviews
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