John Crowley (born December 1, 1942 in Presque Isle, Maine) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer. He is best known as the author of Little, Big (1981), which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Presque Isle is a city located in Aroostook County, Maine. ... Official language(s) None Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Area  - Total   - Width   - Length    - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 39th 33,414 sq mi  86,542 km² 190 miles  305 km 320 miles  515 km 13. ... // For other meanings see Fantasy (disambiguation) Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... The Indiana University system, technically founded in 1820, is an eight-campus university system in the state of Indiana. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Little, Big (ISBN 0553373978) is a novel by John Crowley, published in 1981. ... First awarded in 1975, the World Fantasy Awards are handed out annually at the World Fantasy Convention (WFC) to recognize outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy. ...

Biography

Crowley is the author of nine novels and two collections of short fiction. His first published novels were science fiction: The Deep (1975) and Beasts (1976). Engine Summer (1979) was nominated for the 1980 American Book Award; it appears in David Pringle’s 100 Best Science Fiction Novels. In 1981 came Little, Big, which Ursula Le Guin described as a book that “all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy.” In 1980 Crowley embarked on an ambitious four-volume novel, Ægypt, of which three volumes have been published – Ægypt: The Solitudes, Love & Sleep, and Dæmonomania; the final volume, Endless Things, is in preparation. This series and Little, Big were cited when Crowley received the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. He is also the recipient of an Ingram Merrill Foundation grant. His recent novels are The Translator, recipient of the Premio Flaianno (Italy), and Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land, which contains an entire imaginary novel by the poet. A museum-quality 25th anniversary edition of Little, Big, featuring the art of Peter Milton and a critical introduction by Harold Bloom, is in preparation. The Deep is a short early (1975) novel by John Crowley. ... Engine Summer (ISBN 0385128312) is a novel by John Crowley, published in 1979 by Doubleday. ... The American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation. ... David Pringle (born 1950) was a Scottish science fiction editor. ... Ursula K. Le Guin at an informal bookstore Q&A session, July 2004 Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929), is an American author. ... Ægypt is a (projected) sequence of four novels by John Crowley detailing the work and life of Pierce Moffett, who prepares a manuscript for publication even as it prepares him for some as-of-yet unknown destiny, all set amidst strange and subtle Hermetic manipulations among the Faraway Hills of... American Academy of Arts and Letters is an organization whose goal is to foster, assist, and sustain an interest in American literature, music, and art. ... poet James Merrill, age 30, in a 1957 publicity photograph for The Seraglio James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 - February 6, 1995) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American writer, increasingly regarded as one of the most important 20th century poets in the English language. ... Peter Winslow Milton (b. ... Harold Bloom, Literary Critic Dr. Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American professor and prominent literary and cultural critic. ...

Crowley’s short fiction is collected in three volumes: Novelty (containing the World Fantasy Award-winning novella Great Work of Time), Antiquities, and Novelties & Souvenirs, an omnibus volume containing all his short fiction through its publication in 2004. A collection of essays and criticism entitled In Other Words is scheduled for publication in early 2007.

In 1989 Crowley and his wife Laurie Block founded Straight Ahead Pictures to produce media (film, video, radio and internet) on American history and culture. Crowley writes scripts for short films and documentaries, many historical documentaries for public television; his work has received numerous awards and has been shown at the New York Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, and many others. His scripts include The World of Tomorrow (on the 1939 World's Fair), No Place to Hide (on the bomb shelter obsession), The Hindenburg, and FIT: Episodes in the History of the Body (American fitness practices and beliefs over the decades with Laurie Block, his wife). [Source: Yale University Web site] The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the Berlinale, is one of the most important film festivals in Europe and the world. ... A Worlds Fair is any of various large expositions held since the mid-19th century. ... The Hindenburg (1975) is a movie based on the disaster of the German airship Hindenburg. ... Physical fitness is an attribute required for service in virtually all militaries. ...

Crowley's correspondence with literary critic Harold Bloom, and their mutual appreciation, led in 1993 to Crowley taking up a post at Yale University, where he began teaching courses in Utopian fiction, fiction writing, and screenplay writing. Bloom claimed on Contentville.com that Little, Big ranks among the five best novels by a living writer; he includes Little, Big, Ægypt, and Love & Sleep in his canon of literature. Harold Bloom, Literary Critic Dr. Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American professor and prominent literary and cultural critic. ... Yale redirects here. ... Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal world as the setting for a novel. ...

Awards

• 1982: Little, Big received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
• 1990: Great Work of Time received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella.
• 1992: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.

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Bibliography

Novels

• The Deep, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1975.
• Beasts, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1976.
• Engine Summer, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1979.
• Little, Big, Bantam (New York, NY), 1981.
• Ægypt: The Solitudes (first novel in Ægypt tetralogy), Bantam (New York, NY), 1987.
• Great Work of Time (novella, originally published in Novelty, 1989), Bantam (New York, NY), 1991
• Love & Sleep (second novel in Ægypt tetralogy), Bantam (New York, NY), 1994.
• Dæmonomania (third novel in Ægypt tetralogy), Bantam (New York, NY), 2000.
• The Translator, William Morrow (New York, NY), 2002.
• The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines (novella, originally published in 2002), Subterranean Press (Burton, MI), 2005.
• Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land, William Morrow (New York, NY), 2005.

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Short fiction

• Antiquities, 1977
• Where Spirits Gat Them Home, 1978, later revised as Her Bounty to the Dead
• The Reason for the Visit, 1980
• The Green Child, 1981
• Novelty, 1983
• Snow, 1985
• The Nightingale Sings At Night, 1989
• In Blue, 1989
• Missolonghi 1824, 1990
• Exogamy, 1993
• Gone, 1996
• Lost and Abandoned, 1997
• An Earthly Mother Sits and Sings, 2000, published as an original chapbook by DreamHaven, illustrated by Charles Vess
• The War Between the Objects and the Subjects, 2002

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Collections

• Novelty, Bantam (New York, NY), 1989, (The Nightingale Sings At Night, Great Work of Time, In Blue, Novelty).
• Antiquities: Seven Stories, Incunabula (Seattle, WA), 1993.
• Novelties and Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction, Perennial (New York, NY), 2004, (collecting all Crowley's short fiction - including Great Work of Time - except The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines)

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Omnibuses

• Beasts/Engine Summer/Little Big, QPBC (New York, NY), 1991.
• Three Novels, Bantam (New York, NY), 1994; retitled Otherwise: Three Novels by John Crowley, (The Deep, Beasts, Engine Summer)

Screenplays

• The World of Tomorrow, 1989.
• Fit: Episodes in the History of the Body, 1990, with Laurie Block.

Critical Work Concerning

• Snake's-Hands: The Fiction of John Crowley, edited by Alice K. Turner and Michael Andre-Driussi, Cosmos, 2003

External links

• Crowley's blog
• Crowley biography and links
• John Crowley at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• The 25th Anniversary Edition of Little, Big
• John Crowley at the Internet Movie Database
• Straight Ahead Pictures, Inc