Robert R. McCammon

Robert Rick McCammon (born July 17, 1952) is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. One of the influential names in the late 1970s–early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCammon had three New York Times bestsellers (The Wolf's Hour, Stinger, and Swan Song) and around 5 million books in print. Since 2002, he's written ten books in a historical mystery series featuring an 18th-century magistrate's clerk, Matthew Corbett, as he unravels mysteries in colonial America.

Personal life His parents are Jack, a musician, and Barbara Bundy McCammon. After his parents' divorce, McCammon lived with his grandparents in Birmingham. He received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Alabama in 1974. McCammon lives in Birmingham. He has a daughter, Skye, with his former wife, Sally Sanders.

Career McCammon has published multiple award-winning books, including Mine in 1990 and Boy's Life in 1991. After the release of Gone South, McCammon chose to leave his publisher. After clashing with an editor at a new publisher over the direction for his historical fiction novel Speaks the Nightbird, he retired from writing. After a long hiatus which resulted from the reorganization of the publishing industry and McCammon's personal depression and soul searching, he returned to the publishing world with Speaks the Nightbird, the first book in the Matthew Corbett series. Publishers Weekly called it a "compulsively readable yarn," and said, "McCammon's loyal fans will find his resurfacing reason to rejoice." Since 2002, seventeen new books have been published, including the ten books in the Matthew Corbett series.

In 1985, McCammon's story "Nightcrawlers" was adapted into an episode of The Twilight Zone.

1985 World Fantasy Award Short Fiction

1987 Bram Stoker Award Novel 1988 World Fantasy Award Novel 1988 Locus Award Fantasy Novel 1994 Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize

1987 Bram Stoker Award Short Fiction 2014 FantLab's Book of the Year Award Online Publication in Small Form

1988 World Fantasy Award Novella

1988 Bram Stoker Award Novel 1989 Locus Award Horror Novel

1989 Bram Stoker Award Short Fiction

1989 Bram Stoker Award Novel 1990 Locus Award Horror Novel 1992 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign Novel

1989 Bram Stoker Award Fiction Collection 1990 World Fantasy Award Collection 1990 Locus Award Collection

1990 Bram Stoker Award Novel

1991 Bram Stoker Award Novel 1992 World Fantasy Award Novel 1992 Locus Award Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel 1994 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign Novel 1995 Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize

2003 Independent Publisher Book Awards Historical/Military Fiction 2004 Alabama Library Association Alabama Author Award Fiction 2013 Audie Awards Fiction

2015 Goodreads Choice Awards Horror

2019 Dragon Awards Horror

2019 Locus Award Horror Novel

2008 World Horror Convention Grand Master Award

2009 Phoenix Award

2013 Bram Stoker Award Lifetime Achievement