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Lucius Shepard (Lucius Taylor Shepard) (b. 1947) was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, and he grew up in Florida. After leaving home at the age of fifteen, he traveled widely in the Third World and is currently writing a non-fiction book on Central America. His first professional sale was the novelette “The Taylorsville Reconstruction” to Terry Carr’s anthology Universe 13 (1983). Widely regarded as one of the finest writers in the science fiction, fantasy and horror fields, he has been compared to Graham Greene and Ward Just and his multi-genre fiction has earned him the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, Theodore Sturgeon Award, John W. Campbell Award, Locus Award and the International Horror Writers Guild Award, amongst others. His debut novel Green Eyes (1984) involved science fiction, voodoo and zombies, and he followed it with Life During Wartime, Kalimantan, The Scalehunter’s Beautiful Daughter, The Father of Stones, the vampire novel The Golden, The Last Time, Valentine, Louisiana Breakdown, Floater, Liar’s House and Two Trains Running. His exotic short fiction has been collected in the Arkham House volume The Jaguar Hunter, Nantucket Slayrides: Three Short Novels (with Robert Frazier), The Ends of the Earth, Sports & Music, Beast of the Heartland (aka Barnacle Bill the Spacer and Other Stories) and Night Visions 11 (which also includes work by Kim Newman and Tim Lebbon). His most recent books are Trujillo and Other Stories, a collection from PS Publishing, and the novel, A Handbook of American Prayer. Forthcoming are the novel Softspoken and Weapons of Mass Seduction, a collection of film reviews and essays. Another fiction collection is also due from PS.

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