Tim Powers(I)
- Writer
- Actor
- Art Department
Powers has lived in
southern California since 1959. He graduated from California State
University at Fullerton with a B.A. in English in 1976; the same year
he published his first two novels, "The Skies Discrowned" and "Epitaph
in Rust." Powers, who takes more time and care writing novels than his
fans would like, went on to sell "The Drawing of the Dark" (1979, a
supernatural fantasy about King Arthur and beer-drinking), "The Anubis
Gates" (1983, time-travel fantasy featuring Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lord Byron, and
winner of the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award and the Prix Apollo),
"Dinner at Deviant's Palace" (1987, a science fiction post-apocalypse
novel and winner of the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award), "The Stress of
Her Regard" (1989, a vampire novel featuring English Romantic poets
John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron), the Fisher-King, Tarot-card-haunted
trilogy of "Last Call" (1992, winner of the World Fantasy Award),
"Expiration Date" (1996), and "Earthquake Weather" (1997), and
"Declare" (2001, a supernatural spy novel featuring Kim Philby). A very
accessible writer, he has often taught the Clarion Science Fiction
Writers' Workshop at Michigan State University and the Writers of the
Future Workshop, and chats regularly with his fans on the Tim Powers
discussion list on yahoogroups.
