Robert McCammon biography

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1952, Robert McCammon is a celebrated American author who rose to prominence during the horror literature boom of the late 1970s and 1980s. After earning a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Alabama, he worked in advertising before becoming a full-time writer following the success of his early novels like Baal and Bethany's Sin.

McCammon became a mainstay on the New York Times Bestseller List with epic works such as the post-apocalyptic masterpiece Swan Song (1987), which shared the inaugural Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel with Stephen King's Misery. He is equally well-known for the World War II werewolf thriller The Wolf's Hour and the coming-of-age classic Boy's Life, which won both the World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Awards.

After a decade-long hiatus starting in the mid-1990s, McCammon returned to fiction with Speaks the Nightbird (2002), launching his acclaimed Matthew Corbett historical mystery series set in colonial America. A recipient of the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award, McCammon continues to live in Birmingham, remaining one of the most versatile and influential voices in modern speculative and historical fiction.

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