The Dragon Griaule

Author Biography

Lucius Taylor Shepard was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1947. He travelled extensively in his youth, and has held a wide assortment of occupations in the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia and Latin America, including rock musician and night club bouncer. He attended the Clarion Writers’ Workshop in 1980 and made his first commercial sale a year later. His work covers many areas of fantastic fiction and has recently encompassed non-fiction, as well. For over a decade, he has contributed a regular column on SF cinema for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Lucius Shepard has won numerous prizes for his work, including the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon and International Horror Guild awards. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Also by Lucius Shepard

Novels

Green Eyes (1984)Life During Wartime (1987)The Golden (1993)

Valentine (2002)

Louisiana Breakdown (2003)

Floater (2003)

Viator (2004)

Trujillo (2004)

A Handbook of American Prayer (2004)

Softspoken (2007)

Short Story Collections

The Jaguar Hunter (1987)

Nantucket Slayrides (with Robert Frazier) (1989)

The Ends of the Earth (1991)

Kalimantan (1993)

Barnacle Bill the Spacer and Other Stories (1997)

Two Trains Running (2004)

Trujillo and Other Stories (2004)

Eternity and Other Stories (2004)

Dagger Key and Other Stories (2007)

The Best of Lucius Shepard (2008)

Skull City and Other Lost Tales (2008)

Vacancy & Ariel (2009)

The Dragon Griaule (2012)

Five Autobiographies and a Fiction (2013)