John Crowley (born December 1, 1942 in Presque Isle, Maine) is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer. He is best known as the author of the fantasy book Little, Big (1981), which won the World Fantasy Award.

Crowley's correspondence with literary critic Harold Bloom, and their mutual appreciation, lead in 1993 to Crowley taking up a post at Yale University where he began teaching courses in Utopian fiction, fiction writing, and screenplay writing. Bloom claimed on Contentville.com that Little, Big ranks among the five best novels by a living writer.

Bibliography

Novels:

• The Deep (also see below), Doubleday (New York, NY), 1975.
• Beasts (also see below), Doubleday (New York, NY), 1976.
• Engine Summer (also see below), Doubleday (New York, NY), 1979.
• Little, Big, Bantam (New York, NY), 1981.
• Aegypt (first novel in tetralogy), Bantam (New York, NY), 1987.
• Great Work of Time (novella), Bantam (New York, NY), 1991.
• Love and Sleep (second novel in tetralogy), Bantam (New York, NY), 1994.
• Three Novels, (contains The Deep, Beasts, and Engine Summer) Bantam (New York, NY), 1994.
• Daemonomania (third novel in tetralogy), Bantam (New York, NY), 2000.
• The Translator, Avon, 2002.
• Otherwise: Three Novels (contains The Deep, Beasts, and Engine Summer), Perennial (New York, NY), 2002.

Short stories:

• Novelty, Bantam (New York, NY), 1989.
• Antiquities: Seven Stories, Incunabula (Seattle, WA), 1993.
• Novelties and Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction, Perennial (New York, NY), 2004.

Other:

• (Editor, with Howard Kerr and Charles L. Crow) The Haunted Dusk: American Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1920, University of Georgia Press (Athens, GA), 1983.
• World of Tomorrow (screenplay), 1989.
• Fit: Episodes in the History of the Body (screenplay), 1990.

See also: Crowley biography and links