Note: The John Crowley who wrote Sans épines, la rose: Tony Blair, un modèle pour l'Europe? is a different author with the same name. A museum-quality 25th anniversary edition of Little, Big, featuring the art of Peter Milton and a critical introduction by Harold Bloom, is in preparation. A novella, The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, appeared in 2002. His recent novels are The Translator, recipient of the Premio Flaianno (Italy), and Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land, which contains an entire imaginary novel by the poet. He is also the recipient of an Ingram Merrill Foundation grant. This series and Little, Big were cited when Crowley received the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature.

In 1980 Crowley embarked on an ambitious four-volume novel, Ægypt, comprising The Solitudes (originally published as Ægypt), Love & Sleep, Dæmonomania, and Endless Things, published in May 2007. In 1981 came Little, Big, which Ursula Le Guin described as a book that “all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy.” Engine Summer (1979) was nominated for the 1980 American Book Award it appears in David Pringle’s 100 Best Science Fiction Novels. His first published novels were science fiction: The Deep (1975) and Beasts (1976). In 1992 he received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Since 1993 he has taught creative writing at Yale University. He published his first novel (The Deep) in 1975, and his 15th volume of fiction (Endless Things) in 2007. He moved to New York City after college to make movies, and did find work in documentary films, an occupation he still pursues. He grew up in Vermont, northeastern Kentucky and (for the longest stretch) Indiana, where he went to high school and college. John Crowley was born in Presque Isle, Maine, in 1942 his father was then an officer in the US Army Air Corps. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

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