Jeffrey Ford biography
Jeffrey Ford was born November 8, 1955 in New York. He is an American fantasy writer whose work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humour, literary allusion, and a fascination with tales told within tales.
He lives in southern New Jersey and teaches writing and literature at Brookdale Community College in Monmouth County. He has also taught at the summer Clarion Workshop for science fiction and fantasy writers in Michigan. He has contributed stories, essays and interviews to various magazines and e-magazines including MSS, Puerto Del Sol, Northwest Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Argosy, Event Horizon, Infinity Plus, Black Gate and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
He published his first story, "The Casket", in Gardner's literary magazine MSS in 1981 and his first full-length novel, Vanitas, in 1988.
Awards
- The Physiognomy (World Fantasy Award)
- The Fantasy Writer's Assistant (World Fantasy Award)
- Creation (World Fantasy Award)
- Botch Town (World Fantasy Award)
- The Empire of Ice Cream (Nebula Award)
- The Annals of Eelin-Ok (The Fountain Award)
- The Girl in the Glass (Edgar Allan Poe Award)
Jeffrey Ford books
- Vanitas
- The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
- The Girl in the Glass
- The Shadow Year
Well-Built City Trilogy
- The Physiognomy
- Memoranda
- The Beyond
Collections
- The Fantasy Writer's Assistant
- The Empire of Ice-Cream
- The Drowned Life
Latest news: Jeffrey Ford
Tender Morsels and The Shadow Year share World Fantasy Award
Margo Lanagan's Tender Morsels and Jeffrey Ford's The Shadow Year were named joint winners of the World Fantasy award for best novel.
Tender Morsels [link to review] was Fantasy Book Review's favourite amongst the nominees with the reviewer saying "If you remove all the fuss surrounding the novel [...]
Tender Morsels our pick to win the World Fantasy Award
Last month we ran a story on the nominations for the World Fantasy Award. Unfortunately, we do not have the time to read and review all the entrants, but we thought that we should at least cover the five nominations for best novel. So which book do we here at Fantasy Book Review believe should win t [...]
The latest Fantasy Book Reviews
It has been a busy week on Fantasy Book Review with new reviews being added daily.
The nominations for the World Fantasy Award were announced in August and we are reading and reviewing the five books that have been shortlisted for the prestigious award. Margo Lanagan’s stunning Tender Morsels has [...]
World Fantasy Award Nominations
The World Fantasy Award nominations have now been announced. Good luck to all participants.
Best Novel
The House of the Stag, Kage Baker
The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory
Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan
Best Novella
Uncle Cha [...]
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Apartment 16 by Adam Nevill
Some doors are better left closed . . . In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it’s been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever.
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