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Born in Philadelphia in 1947, James Morrow spent his adolescent years making short 8mm fantasy films with his friends. After receiving a master's degree from Harvard University in 1971, Morrow worked for several years as an English teacher, a cartoonist, and an independent filmmaker. Between 1977 and 1978 he produced the manuscript of his first novel, The Wine of Violence, and shortly afterward became addicted to writing fiction.
The first book of the Godhead Trilogy, Towing Jehovah, was the winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. The sequel, Blameless in Abaddon, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Morrow's other novels include This Is the Way the World Ends, a Nebula finalist, and Only Begotten Daughter, winner of the World Fantasy Award. Most of his short fiction is collected in Bible Stories for Adults, including the Nebula Award-winning fable, "The Deluge." His novella, City of Truth, also received a Nebula Award. With the 1999 publication of The Eternal Footman, James Morrow offered up his final satiric meditation on the death of God. Morrow's latest novels are The Last Witchfinder and The Philosopher's Apprentice. Morrow now lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Kathryn, his son, Christopher, and two enigmatic dogs. He devotes his leisure hours to his family, his Lionel toy electric trains, and his video collection of vulgar Biblical spectacles |
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Also by James Morrow
The Cat's Pajamas
978-1-892391-84-1
Cover design by Ann Monn
Interior design by John D. Berry
It is the early summer of 1945, and war reigns in the Pacific Rim with no end in sight. Back in the States, Hollywood B-movie star Syms Thorley lives in a very different world, starring as the Frankenstein-like Corpuscula and Kha-Ton-Ra, the living mummy. But the U.S. Navy has a new role waiting for Thorley, the role of a lifetime that he could never have imagined.
-Washington Post "...widely regarded as the foremost satirist associated with the SF and Fantasy field." -SF Site "Morrow understands theology like a theologian and psychology like a psychologist, but he writes like an angel." -Richard Elliott Friedman, author of The Hidden Book in the Bible "America's best satirist." -James Gunn, University of Kansas For The Cat’s Pajamas "His latest collection demonstrates that his rapier wit has lost none of its edge as it encompasses twisted scenarios ranging from Martians invading Central Park to having the fates of other worlds rest upon the scores of American football games.... All the stories manifest Morrow's penchant for exploring the dark underbelly of technological promise and extracting quirky moral conundrums. Morrow's fans will revel, and first-time readers may find his grim humor making fans of them, too." -Booklist "...far more entertaining than most of that tedious stuff you've been forcing yourself to read." -Fantastic Reviews "Morrow's shorter tales possess...a keen sense of folly and morality, a witty inventiveness..." -SciFiction.com "Amply displays [Morrow's] ability to juggle absurdity, tragedy, irony and outrage..." -Locus "darkly delightful satire." -Cemetery Dance For The Last Witchfinder "intrepid, impeccably researched" —Publishers Weekly, starred review "James Morrow's novel about early American witchcraft pulls off so many dazzling feats of literary magic that in a different century he’d have been burned at the stake." —Washington Post "This impeccably researched, highly ambitious novel - nine years in the writing - is a triumph of historical fiction." -Booklist For The Philosopher’s Apprentice "a tumultuous take on humanity, philosophy, and ethics that is as hilarious as it is outlandish." -Kirkus |
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