Dean Ray Koontz (born on July 9th, 1945 with Everett, Pennsylvania), is an author of fictions to great success, initially famous for its novels with suspense.

Biography

Koontz is resulting from a family hopelessly poor and placed under the tyranny of an alcoholic patriarch and violent one. In spite of its childhood traumatisante, Koontz taken the initiative to follow its studies to the Shippensburg university, from Pennsylvania (later known under the name of “Shippensburg State College”), and, in 1967 began its career as a professor from English with Mechanicsburg High School. In its spare time, he wrote its first novel, Star Quest, who was published in 1968. After that, it followed more than one dozen of science-fiction novels.

In the years 1970, Koontz started to publish novels general public of suspense and horror, under its own name like under several pen names. Koontz known as to have used pen names under the pressure of editors having convinced it that the authors changing of kind are victims of “negative crossing”: alienating the assiduous fans all while not attracting new readers. The known pseudonyms include Deanna Dwyer, K.R. Dwyer, Aaron Wolfe, David Axton, Brian Coffey, John Hill, Leigh Nichols, Owen West, Richard Paige and Anthony North. Some of the novels published under these pseudonyms are now sold under the true name of the author.

Some of its works are deliberately in rupture of impression: Koontz repurchased the rights of publication of several of its first writings which he regards as being of lower quality. (Koontz however suggested that it could possibly work over again and again publish some of them, at least the collection “Dean Koontz Companion” written during the middle of the Nineties).

The novel which revealed Koontz with the general public is “Whispers” (1980). Since, twenty-two works written by Koontz reached the first place of the list of the best-sellers published by NewYork Times. (Last nine hardcovers and thirteen paperbacks).

He often jokes by encouraging his fans to collect his novels and news, as long as they do not read them.

To date, in 2006, Koontz resides at Newport Beach, a city of the south of California (the majority of its novels are based in the south of California) with his Gerda wife and their bitch Trixie Koontz, under the name of which it published the book, Life is Good: Let us injure in Joyful Living, in 2004. Trixie is also often mentioned in its newsletter “Useless News”.

Certain fans think that Koontz would have had recourse to capillary implants: the first photographs of the author showed it dismantled and carrying a moustache, whereas it appears now shaven of close and raising a denser hair.

Works

Novels

Works being published voluntarily more

  • Dragonfly (1975, under the name K.R. Dwyer)
  • The Long Sleep (1975, under the name John Hill)
  • Nightmare Journey (1975)
  • Wall off Masks (1975, under the name Brian Coffey)
  • After the Last Race (1974)
  • Surrounded (1974, under the name Brian Coffey)
  • Blood Risk (1973, under name Brian Coffey)
  • Dance with the Devil (1973, under the name Deanna Dwyer)
  • Hanging One (1973)
  • The Haunted Earth (1973)
  • has Werewolf Among Us (1973) off
  • Children the Storm (1972, under the name Deanna Dwyer)
  • The Dark off Summer (1972, under the name Deanna Dwyer)
  • has Darkness in My Soul (1972)
  • Demon Child (1972, under the name Deanna Dwyer)
  • Starblood (1972)
  • Time Thieves (1972)
  • Warlock! (1972)
  • The Crimson Witch (1971)
  • Legacy off Terror (1971, under the name Deanna Dwyer)
  • Anti-Man (1970)
  • Beastchild (1970) - the monster and the child - Presses Pocket Science fiction N°5041, 1978
  • Dark off the Woods (1970)
  • Dark Symphony (1970)
  • Hell' S Spoils (1970) off
  • The Fall the Dream Machine (1969)
  • Fear That Man (1969)
  • Star Quest (1968)

Books for children


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