Richard Garfinkle Explained

Richard Garfinkle
Occupation:	Author
Nationality:	American
Education:	Clarion West Writers Workshop
Genre:	Science fiction
Awards:	Compton Crook Award (1997)
Spouse:	Alessandra Kelley
Children:	2

Richard Garfinkle (born 1961) is an American writer of science fiction.

He is best known as the author of Celestial Matters, a novel published by Tor Books, which won the Compton Crook Award in 1997.^[1]

Garfinkle is a 1992 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and was nominated twice for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

He has taught at numerous writers' workshops at Windycon, an annual Chicago-area science fiction convention, and at Chicon 2000, the 58th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Chicago.^[2] He's married to Alessandra Kelley and has two daughters.^[3]

Bibliography

• Celestial Matters (novel, Tor Books, April 1996).
• All of an Instant (novel, Tor Books, November 1999). One of the most original sci fi novels of all time.
• "The Last Invasion of Ireland" in Once Upon a Galaxy, Wil McCarthy, Martin H. Greenberg, and John Helfers, eds. (collection, Daw Books, September 2002).
• Three Steps to the Universe: From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter (nonfiction, with brother David Garfinkle, University of Chicago Press, November 2008).
• Exaltations (novel, Achronal Press, June 2009).
• Wayland's Principia (novel, Achronal Press, August 2009).

External links

• • Richard Garfinkle's website

Notes and References

1. Web site: . Compton Crook Award Winners . June 25, 2012.
2. http://www.chicon.org/depts/writers.htm Chicago 2000 World Science Fiction Convention page
3. Web site: Richard Garfinkle Science Fiction and Other Links .