Nebula Awards 28 Sfwa's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

James Morrow has been writing fiction since, shortly after his seventh birthday, he dictated "The Story of the Dog Family" to his mother, who dutifully typed it up and bound the pages with yarn. This three-page, six-chapter fantasy is still in the author's private archives.Upon reaching adolescence, Morrow channeled his need to tell stories through the medium of film. When not attending to their studies at Abington High School in the Philadelphia suburbs, he and his friends produced seven short 8mm fantasy movies, including adaptations of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." The author's affection for satiric and philosophical fiction derives largely from the novels he studied in his 10th Grade World Literature class.After earning a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MAT from Harvard University, Morrow settled into a respectable career as an instructional materials specialist for various public school systems in the Boston Area. One day, while contemplating the possible effects of television on the minds of children, he found himself possessed by an idea for a novel about a technologically-based pacifist utopia. He quit his job and began work on what would become The Wine of Violence , published in 1981 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Having returned to the medium of his childhood, Morrow now realized that fiction-making was what he should be doing with his life, and he went on to publish eight more critically acclaimed novels and two short story collections. The author's most recent efforts include The Last Witchfinder , a New York Times Editor's Choice, and The Philosopher's Apprentice , published in March of 2008 and praised by Kirkus Reviews as a "brilliant comedy of manners ... funny and consistently engrossing." Morrow has won the World Fantasy Award twice, the Nebula Award twice, and the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire once. In 2005 at the Utopiales SF Festival in Nantes he received the Prix Utopia, given each year by the French speculative fiction community in recognition of a writer's oeuvre to date. He currently resides in State College, Pennsylvania, with wife Kathryn, son Christopher, and two dogs: Pooka, an SPCA Border collie, and Amtrak, a Doberman mix that Jim and Kathy rescued from a train station in Orlando.Morrow, James is the author of 'Nebula Awards 28 Sfwa's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year' with ISBN 9780156000390 and ISBN 0156000393.