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Dean Koontz
Sign in to saveAlso known as Dean Ray Koontz, Aaron Wolfe, Brian Coffey, David Axton, Deanna Dwyer, John Hill, K.R. Dwyer, Leigh Nichols
American writer and screenwriter (born 1945)
OverviewAI-generated
Dean Koontz is an American male author who began his professional work period in 1968. Born on 9 July 1945, he has published 305 works, with notable titles including *Obsessions*, *Again*, *Dangerous Visions*, *Every Day's a Holiday*, *Trapped*, and *The Paper Doorway*. In addition to his primary name, Koontz has written under the pseudonyms David Axton, John Hill, Aaron Wolfe, and Brian Coffey.
His literary output has been cataloged across various platforms, with Crossref listing five works and Europeana Sparql recording nine. On Last.fm, his name is associated with 2,944 listeners and 117,256 plays, often tagged with horror, fantasy, and audiobook categories. Koontz maintains an official website and has 45,755 social media followers. His work is referenced by 370 other encyclopedia articles, and a quote attributed to him on Wikiquote reads, "Did you get the leash on him yet, Einstein?"
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Key facts
- Born
- Dean Ray Koontz , ( 1945-07-09 ) July 9, 1945 (age 80) , Everett , Pennsylvania, United States
- Pen name
- Aaron Wolfe Brian Coffey David Axton Deanna Dwyer John Hill K.R. Dwyer Leigh Nichols Anthony North Owen West Richard Paige
- Occupation
- Novelist short story writer screenwriter poet
- Education
- Shippensburg State College ( BA )
- Genre
- Suspense horror fiction science fiction thriller fantasy
- Notable works
- Odd Thomas Demon Seed Watchers Hideaway Intensity Phantoms The Face of Fear Lightning
- Spouse
- Gerda Ann Cerra ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. October 15, 1966</span>"}]]}'>1966 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Dean
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Everett
- Occupation
- prose writer
- Educated at
- Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- detective fiction
- Official website
- www.deankoontz.com
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- date of birth
- 1945-07-09
- start of work period
- 1968-00-00
- social media followers
- 45755
- writing language
- English language
- pseudonym
- Owen West
Sources (9)
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Works in European collections
9 objects attributed to Dean Koontz, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
An history of animals containing descriptions of the birds, beasts, fishes, and insects of the sevarl parts of the world ... illustrated with figures
A general natural history or, new and accurate descriptions of the animals, vegetables, and minerals, of the different parts of the world with their virtues and uses ... in medicine and mechanics : ... including the history of the materia medica, pictoria, and tinctoria, of the present and earlier ages : as also observations ... with a great number of figures, elegantly engraved
A history of the materia medica containing descriptions of all the substances used in medicine ..
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Encyclopedic overview
A collection of Dean Koontz books Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945) is an American author. His novels are billed as suspense thrillers, but frequently incorporate elements of horror, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and satire. Many of his books have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, with fourteen hardcovers and sixteen paperbacks reaching the number-one position. Koontz wrote under a number of pen names earlier in his career, including "David Axton", "Deanna Dwyer", "K. R. Dwyer", "Leigh Nichols" and "Brian Coffey". He has published over 105 novels and a number of novellas and collections of short stories, and has sold over 500 million copies of his work. He has been acknowledged as “America’s most popular suspense novelist” by Rolling Stone and as one of today's most celebrated and successful writers.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dean Koontz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.