Nancy Kress
Also known as Anna Kendall, Nancy Anne Kress
American science fiction writer (1948-)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1948
- Works
- 179
Top works
- Fearless Women Fall Sampler
- The End of the World -- stories of the apocalypse
- Galaxy's Edge Magazine
- Future Visions
- Aliens
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- See Grace Fly — Radio Testimonial (voice)2003
- Prisoners of Gravity — Self1989
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Nancy Anne Kress (born January 20, 1948) is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella Beggars in Spain (1991), which became a novel in 1993. She also won the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 2013 for After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, and in 2015 for Yesterday's Kin. In addition to her novels, Kress has written numerous short stories and is a regular columnist for Writer's Digest. She is a regular at Clarion Workshops. During the winter of 2008/09, Nancy Kress was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany.
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