Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over forty novels and several hundred short pieces, fiction and non-fiction. He has received numerous awards, among them The Edgar, 10 Bram Stokers, one of them for Lifetime Achievement, and he has also received the Horror Writers Association Grandmaster Award. He has also been awarded The British Fantasy Award, The Herodotus, Inkpot, Lifetime Achievement Award, Grinzani Prize, The Golden Lion Award, The Spur Award for his novel Paradise Sky, and many others. His writing has been made into several films, including Bubba Ho-Tep, Cold in July, Christmas with the Dead, as well as TV episodes like Incident On and Off A Mountain Road for Showtime's Masters of Horror, and the Hap and Leonard series based on his series characters. Currently in progress are The Bottoms, to be directed by Bill Paxton, The Thicket, to star Peter Dinklage, as well as others. He is a member of The Texas Institute of Letters, and has been inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, and is in The United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame, and the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame. He is writer in residence at Stephen. F. Austin University. He and his wife, Karen, live in Nacogdoches, Texas.
John L. Lansdale was born and raised in East Texas. He is married to the love of his life Mary. They have four children. He is a retired Army reserve Psychological Operations Officer and a combat veteran with numerous medals and awards. He's an inventor, country music song writer performer and television programmer. He produced and directed the Television Special "Ladies of Country Music." He has produced several albums in Nashville, hosted his own radio shows and won awards for producing and writing radio and TV commercials. He was a writer and editor of a business newspaper. He has worked as a comic book writer for Tales from the Crypt, IDW, Grave Tales, Cemetery Dance and several more. He co-authored the Shadows West and Hell's Bounty novels with his brother Joe. Currently he has authored the following novels in the process of publication: Horse of a Different Color, Slow Bullet, Long Walk Home, The Last Good Day and Zombie Gold.
