Allan Danzig

Born in 1931, Allan Danzig is an American writer whose published work includes science-fiction short stories as well as later novels. A record in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database credits him with stories including The Great Nebraska Sea (1963), showing that his writing career reaches back decades.

In his own author biography, Danzig says he grew up in Little Silver, New Jersey, attended the Lawrenceville School, and became interested in environmental issues around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970. He went on to law school, then worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C., and later as corporate counsel at The Sherwin-Williams Company.

After retiring from law, he returned to a long-held ambition to write fiction. He describes The Unconventional Guide to Joseph Fine as his debut novel and says he wanted his work to be both engaging and enlightening.