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Robert R. McCammon
American novelist · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1952 · age 74
Robert Rick McCammon is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. One of the influential names in the late 1970s-early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCammon had three New York Times bestsellers and around 5 million books in print.
Robert R. McCammon is read about 206 times a day, in 12 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 10 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 111 days, one point a day.
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2012Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime AchievementAward2008World Horror Convention Grand Master AwardAward1992Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign NovelAwardWorld Fantasy Award for Best NovelAward1991“See this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us.”In their wordsIntroduction.“The truth of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get shouldered with burdens, some of them good, some of them not so good.”In their wordsIntroduction.“You never know how things are gonna turn out, though, and that's the truth. You aim for one place, sure as an arrow, but before you hit the mark, the wind gets you.”In their wordsCory's dad to Cory; Book One, Ch. 1.“It seemed to me at an early age that all human communication - whether it’s TV, movies, or books - begins with somebody wanting to tell a story.”In their wordsBook One, Ch. 3.Bram Stoker Award for NovelAward1990Bram Stoker Award for NovelAward1987Bram Stoker Award for NovelAward1952Born17 July 1952
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Since 2002, he's written ten books in a historical mystery series featuring an 18th-century magistrate's clerk, Matthew Corbett, as he unravels mysteries in colonial America.
Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1952 · age 74
Where to find them
The same award as Robert
Andreas EschbachBoth received Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel
Stephen Graham JonesBoth received Bram Stoker Award for Novel
Brian LumleyBoth received World Horror Convention Grand Master AwardRachel PollackBoth received World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
Valerio EvangelistiBoth received Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel
F. Paul WilsonBoth received World Horror Convention Grand Master Award