Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty novels and numerous
short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies,
magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign
publications. He has written for comics, television, film,
newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in
eighteen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited
over a dozen anthologies.
Lansdale has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards,
the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the
British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature,
the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for
Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others.
A major motion picture based on Lansdale's crime thriller Cold in
July was released in May 2014, starring Michael C. Hall (Dexter),
Sam Shepard (Black Hawk Down), and Don Johnson (Miami Vice). His
novella Bubba Hotep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring
Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. His story "Incident On and Off a
Mountain Road" was adapted to film for Showtime's "Masters of
Horror." He is currently co-producing a TV series, "Hap and
Leonard" for the Sundance Channel and films including The Bottoms,
based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad
Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero.
Lansdale is the founder of the martial arts system Shen Chuan:
Martial Science and its affiliate, Shen Chuan Family System. He is
a member of both the United States and International Martial Arts
Halls of Fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, dog,
and two cats.
www.joerlansdale.com
"[Joe Lansdale] is one of the greatest yarn spinners of his
generation: fearless, earthy, original, manic and dreadfully
funny."—Dallas Morning News
"A folklorist's eye for telling detail and front porch raconteur's
sense of pace." --The New York Times Book Review
"Hilarious. . . . Addictively scarfable. . . . Two thumbs-up,
and pardon the barbecue smears."—Texas Monthly "A master at
taking a simple everyday event and turning reality upside
down."--Mystery Scene "Hilarious. . . . Lansdale is a
terrifically gifted storyteller with a sharp country boy wit."--The
Washington Post Book World "Lansdale's prose, both laconic and
sarcastic, is so thick with slang and regional accent that it's as
tasty as a well-cured piece of beef jerky. Readers will want to
savor each bite."—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Lansdale has an
unsettling sensibility. Be thankful he crafts such wild tall
tales."--Chicago Sun-Times "A storyteller in the great
American tradition of Ambrose Bierce and Mark Twain."--The Boston
Globe "Funny, compulsive . . . enjoyably raffish."—Esquire
"[Joe Lansdale] is one of the greatest yarn spinners of his
generation: fearless, earthy, original, manic and dreadfully
funny."-Dallas Morning News
"A folklorist's eye for telling detail and front porch raconteur's
sense of pace." --The New York Times Book Review
"Hilarious. . . . Addictively scarfable. . . . Two thumbs-up, and
pardon the barbecue smears."-Texas Monthly "A master at
taking a simple everyday event and turning reality upside
down."--Mystery Scene "Hilarious. . . . Lansdale is a
terrifically gifted storyteller with a sharp country boy
wit."--The Washington Post Book World "Lansdale's prose,
both laconic and sarcastic, is so thick with slang and regional
accent that it's as tasty as a well-cured piece of beef jerky.
Readers will want to savor each bite."-Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel "Lansdale has an unsettling sensibility. Be thankful
he crafts such wild tall tales."--Chicago Sun-Times "A
storyteller in the great American tradition of Ambrose Bierce and
Mark Twain."--The Boston Globe "Funny, compulsive . . .
enjoyably raffish."-Esquire
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