| Dan Wells | |
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| Born | Daniel Andrew Wells March 4, 1977 Utah |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | USA |
| Genres | horror, young adult |
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Dan Wells (born March 4, 1977) is an American horror fiction author. A Utah native, he currently resides in Orem, Utah.
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Wells wrote his first novel, Choose Your Own Adventure, when he was in second grade. He followed up with several novellas, a serial and a series of comic books when he was in high school. He finished his first serious novel when he was 22.[1] He is a graduate of Brigham Young University, with a bachelor degree in English, emphasizing writing and editing.[2]
Wells is best known as the author of I Am Not a Serial Killer, a horror novel published in the United States by Tor Books. It has been released in the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany, and will soon be published in Taiwan.[2]
He also is one of the four authors (including Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal and Howard Tayler) that contribute to the podcast Writing Excuses.
Horror writer F. Paul Wilson described I Am Not a Serial Killer as a "dazzling, unputdownable debut" with a protagonist "as chilling as he is endearing."[3] YA author Jack Heath praised it as having "plenty of thematic merit" in a review on his website. "All the characters are richly identifiable, including – and I can't stress enough how impressed I was by this – the serial killer," Heath said. "Wells is a first-time novelist, and yet he's already created a sympathetic villain, the holy grail of thriller writing."[4]
In 2011, Wells was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.[5]