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John Crowley (born December 1, 1942) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer. He is best known as the author of ''Little, Big'' (1981), which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and has been called "a neglected masterpiece" by Harold Bloom and his ''Ægypt'' series of novels which revolve around the same themes of Hermeticism, memory, families and religion. Crowley writes the bi-monthly "Easy Chair" essay in ''Harper's Magazine''. == Biography == John Crowley was born in Presque Isle, Maine, in 1942; his father was then an officer in the US Army Air Corps. He grew up in Vermont, northeastern Kentucky and (for the longest stretch) Indiana, where he went to high school and college. He moved to New York City after college to make movies, and did find work in documentary films, an occupation he still pursues. He published his first novel (''The Deep'') in 1975, and his 17th volume of fiction (''Four Freedoms'') in 2009. Since 1993 he has taught creative writing at Yale University.〔 In 1992 he received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His first published novels were science fiction: ''The Deep'' (1975) and ''Beasts'' (1976). ''Engine Summer'' (1979) was nominated for the 1980 National Book Award in one-year category Science Fiction;〔 ("1980" (hardcover Science Fiction) ). ''60 Years of Honoring Great American Books'' (anniversary blog), August 13, 2009. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-14.〕 it appears in David Pringle's ''Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels''. In 1981 came ''Little, Big'', covered in Pringle's sequel, ''Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels''. In 1987 Crowley embarked on an ambitious four-volume novel, ''Ægypt'', comprising ''The Solitudes'' (originally published as ''Ægypt''), ''Love & Sleep'', ''Dæmonomania,'' and ''Endless Things'', published in May 2007. This series and ''Little, Big'' were cited when Crowley received the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. He is also the recipient of an Ingram Merrill Foundation grant. James Merrill, the organization's founder, greatly loved ''Little, Big'', and was blurbed praising Crowley on the first edition of ''Love & Sleep''. His recent novels are ''The Translator'', recipient of the Premio Flaiano (Italy); ''Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land'', which contains an entire imaginary novel by the poet; and the aforementioned ''Four Freedoms'', about workers at an Oklahoma defense plant during World War II. A novella, ''The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines'', appeared in 2002. A museum-quality 25th anniversary edition of ''Little, Big'', featuring the art of Peter Milton and a critical introduction by Harold Bloom, is in preparation for 2014. Crowley’s short fiction is collected in three volumes: ''Novelty'' (containing the World Fantasy Award-winning novella ''Great Work of Time''), ''Antiquities'', and ''Novelties & Souvenirs'', an omnibus volume containing nearly all his short fiction through its publication in 2004. A collection of essays and reviews entitled ''In Other Words'' was published in early 2007. In 1989 Crowley and his wife Laurie Block founded Straight Ahead Pictures to produce media (film, video, radio and internet) on American history and culture. Crowley has written scripts for short films and documentaries, many historical documentaries for public television; his work has received numerous awards and has been shown at the New York Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, and many others. His scripts include ''The World of Tomorrow'' (on the 1939 World's Fair), ''No Place to Hide'' (on the bomb shelter obsession), ''The Hindenburg'' (for HBO), and ''FIT: Episodes in the History of the Body'' (American fitness practices and beliefs over the decades; with Laurie Block).〔("John Crowley: Senior Lecturer in English, Creative Writing" ) (faculty profile). Yale University: English. Retrieved 2012-03-14.〕 Crowley's correspondence with literary critic Harold Bloom, and their mutual appreciation, led in 1993 to Crowley taking up a post at Yale University, where he teaches courses in Utopian fiction, fiction writing, and screenplay writing. Bloom claimed on Contentville.com that ''Little, Big'' ranks among the five best novels by a living writer, and included ''Little, Big'', ''Ægypt'' (''The Solitudes''), and ''Love & Sleep'' in his canon of literature (in the appendix to ''The Western Canon'', 1994). In his Preface to ''Snake's-Hands'', Bloom identifies Crowley as his "favorite contemporary writer", and the Ægypt series as his "favorite romance...after ''Little, Big''". Crowley has also taught at the Clarion West Writers' Workshop held annually in Seattle, Washington. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Crowley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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