Michael Shea

Novelist

Birthday July 3, 1946

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace California

DEATH DATE Feb 16, 2014 (67)

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About

Remembered best for his World Fantasy Award-winning books Growlimb and Nifft the Lean, this popular author won Nebula and Hugo awards for, respectively, The Angel of Death and The Autopsy. His other fantasy and science fiction works include Polyphemus (a short fiction collection) and Assault on Sunrise (a novel).

Before Fame

After studying at both the University of California-Berkeley and the University of California-Los Angeles, he hitchhiked through the United States, Canada, and Europe and held a number of odd jobs.

Trivia

He passed away suddenly at the age of sixty-seven.

Family Life

He grew up in Los Angeles, California, in a family of Irish heritage. His more than three-decade marriage to artist and fellow writer Linda Shea (also known by the pen name of Lynn Cesar) resulted in children named Jacob and Adele.

Associated With

Early in his career, he contributed to the Dying Earth series of fellow fantasy writer Jack Vance.