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F. Paul Wilson (Francis Paul Wilson), F(rancis) Paul (May 17, 1946 - ) Wilson was graduated from Georgetown University in 1968, then received a DO degree in 1973 from the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. He began to sell short fiction while a first-year medical student.

Wilson is the author of more than 30 books, including six science fiction novels (Healer, Wheels Within Wheels, An Enemy of the State, Dydeetown World, The Tery, SIMS), nine horror thrillers (The Keep, The Tomb, The Touch, Reborn, Reprisal, Nightworld, Black Wind, Sibs, Midnight Mass), three contemporary thrillers (The Select, Implant, Deep as the Marrow), a pair of novels that defy categorization (Virgin and The Fifth Harmonic), and a number of collaborations. In 1998, he resurrected his popular antihero, Repairman Jack, and has chronicled his adventures in the cross-genre Legacies, Conspiracies, All the Rage, Hosts, The Haunted Air, Gateways, Crisscross, Infernal and The Last Rakosh (forthcoming 2006). Novels The Keep and The Tomb both appeared on the New York Times Bestsellers List. Wheels Within Wheels won the first Prometheus Award in 1979; The Tomb received the 1984 Porgie Award from he West Coast Review of Books. His Novelet "Aftershock" won the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for short fiction. Dydeetown World was on the young adult recommended reading lists of the American Library Association and the New York Public Library, among others. In 2004, he won a second Prometheus Award for Sims. He is listed in the 50th anniversary edition of Who's Who in America.

Wilson's short fiction has been collected in Soft and Others (1988) and The Barrens and Others (1998). He has edited two anthologies: Freak Show (1992) and Diagnosis: Terminal (1996).

His novel The Keep was made into "a visually striking but otherwise incomprehensible movie" (screenplay and direction by Michael Mann) by Paramount in 1983. The Tomb is in development as Repairman Jack by Beacon Films. In 1989, his original teleplay "Glim-Glim" aired on the horror anthology TV series Monsters. An adaptation of his short story "Ménage a Trois" was part of the pilot for The Hunger TV Series that debuted on Showtime in July 1997. In collaboration with Matthew Costello, Wilson has done script and design work for Mathquest with Aladdin for Disney Interactive (1997), with voices by Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters, and the same for The Interactive Dark Half for Orion Pictures, based on the Stephen King novel. (This project was orphaned when MGM bought Orion.) Costello and Wilson wrote a stage play, Syzygy, which opened in St. Augustine, Florida, in March 2000. Wilson and Costello wrote and scripted The SCI FI Channel's FTL NewsFeed during its four-and-a-half-year run (1992-1994).

External Links

Official Web Site: Repairman Jack.