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Andrew J. Offutt
1934–2013
A prolific storyteller of science fiction and fantasy, he also wrote historical adventures and a large body of work under many pen names. His books range from sword-and-sorcery quests to anthologies that helped shape genre reading in the 1970s and 1980s.
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And Gone Tomorrow
by Andrew J. Offutt
About the author
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, on August 16, 1934, Andrew J. Offutt became one of the more wide-ranging writers in modern popular fiction. He published science fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction, and he often styled his byline in lowercase as andrew j. offutt.
Offutt is especially remembered for adventurous fantasy series and for editing the influential Swords Against Darkness anthologies. Reference sources on speculative fiction also note how unusually prolific he was, writing not only under his own name but under many pseudonyms across different kinds of commercial fiction.
Before writing full-time, he studied at the University of Louisville and worked in insurance and sales. He died on April 30, 2013. His papers are preserved at Emory University, a sign of the lasting place he holds in genre fiction history.