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Frederic S. Durbin

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Frederic S. Durbin
BornTaylorville, Illinois, United States
OccupationNovelist, short story writer
NationalityAmerican
Genrefantasy, horror

Frederic S. Durbin is an American writer and novelist of fantasy and horror. His first novel, Dragonfly, was published by Arkham House in 1999. It was nominated for an International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel.[1]

His second novel, The Star Shard, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2012.[2]

A Green and Ancient Light (edited by Navah Wolfe) was published by Saga Press in 2016.[3]

Biography

Frederic S. Durbin was born in Taylorville, Illinois. He graduated from Taylorville High School and attended Concordia College where he graduated summa cum laude. He taught English at Niigata University in Japan from 1989-2011.[4]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Dragonfly (Arkham House, 1999)
  • The Star Shard (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012)
  • A Green and Ancient Light (Saga Press, 2016)

Short fiction

A more complete bibliography available here
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
The place of roots 2001 "The place of roots". F&SF. 100 (2): 117–123. Feb 2001.

References

  1. ^ "IHG Award Recipients". Archived from the original on 2017-03-31. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
  2. ^ Amazon (2012). The Star Shard. ISBN 978-0547370255.
  3. ^ "The Saga of 2016 Guest Post by Navah Wolfe and Joe Monti". 22 December 2016.
  4. ^ Durbin, Frederic S. (2011). "Me". Frederic S. Durbin. Retrieved 2020-08-20.