Jeffrey Ford

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Jeffrey Ford (born November 8, 1955 in West Islip, New York) is an American writer in the Fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including Fantasy, Science Fiction and Mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humor, literary allusion, and a fascination with tales told within tales. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he studied with the novelist John Gardner.

He lives in southern New Jersey and teaches writing and literature at Brookdale Community College in Monmouth County. He has also taught at the summer Clarion Workshop for science fiction and fantasy writers in Michigan. He has contributed stories, essays and interviews to various magazines and e-magazines including MSS, Puerto Del Sol, Northwest Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Argosy, Event Horizon, Infinity Plus, Black Gate and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

He published his first story, "The Casket", in Gardner's literary magazine MSS in 1981 and his first full-length novel, Vanitas, in 1988.

His stories and novels have been nominated multiple times for the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the International Horror Guild Award, the Fountain Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award. He has been the recipient of three World Fantasy Awards, for his second novel The Physiognomy, the short story collection The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, and his short story "Creation." In 2004, he won a Nebula Award for his novellette "The Empire of Ice Cream". "Exo-Skeleton Town" won the Grand Prix l'Imaginaire for best translated story in 2005. "The Annals of Eelin-Ok" won The Fountain Award (for excellence in the short story) also in 2005. The Girl in the Glass won the 2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award in the Best Paperback Original category.

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  • Vanitas (1988)
  • The Well-Built City Trilogy
  • The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque (2002)
  • The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories (collection, 2002)
  • The Cosmology of the Wider World (novella, 2005)
  • The Girl in the Glass (2005)
  • The Empire of Ice Cream (collection, 2006) (the title story won the 2003 Nebula Award for best novelette)

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NAME Ford, Jeffrey
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SHORT DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH West Islip, New York
DATE OF DEATH
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