Kim Paffenroth
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Kim Paffenroth (born 1966) is a religious scholar, professor, and contemporary American horror author, best known for his Bram Stoker Award-winning book Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero’s Visions of Hell on Earth.[1]
Biography
Kim Paffenroth was born in 1966 in Syosset, New York. He attended Broad Run High School and Los Alamos High School. He went on to receive the BA from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, the STM from Harvard Divinity School, and the PhD The University of Notre Dame. After teaching at Villanova University and University of Notre Dame, Paffenroth has since been at Iona College where he is a Professor of Religious Studies. He is the author of numerous books on the Bible, theology and pop culture as well as a series of zombie-themed genre fiction.[2] His book Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero’s Visions of Hell on Earth won the Bram Stoker Award in the non-fiction category.[3]
Paffenroth is married and has two children.
Published works
Non-fiction
- Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero’s Visions of Hell on Earth (2006), Baylor
Fiction
- Dying to Live: A Novel of Life Among the Undead
- Dying to Live: Life Sentence
- Dying to Live: Last Rites
- Valley of the Dead: The Truth Behind Dante's Inferno
Edited
History is Dead
References
- ^ McCaffrey, Kate (October 25, 2007). "Weekend of the living dead: Zombies return to the Monroeville Mall". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
- ^ http://www.iona.edu/Academics/School-of-Arts-Science/Departments/Religious-Studies/Faculty-Staff/Kim-Paffenroth.aspx
- ^ http://www.horror.org/stokers.htm#winners
External links
- Kim Paffenroth's Official Blog
- Review in Horror World
- Kim Paffenroth at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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