Edward E. Kramer
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Edward E. Kramer was born on March 20, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York. He is the editor and author of numerous science fiction, fantasy, and horror works. As of 1979, he lives near Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Biography
Edward E. Kramer is the editor of ROC Books' Dark Love and Grails anthologies, HarperPrism's The Sandman: Book of Dreams (with Neil Gaiman), Random House's The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams (with James O'Barr), Tor Books' Free Space, Avon Books' Forbidden Acts, White Wolf's Elric: Tales of the White Wolf and Pawn of Chaos: Tales of the Eternal Champion (based on the works and characters of Michael Moorcock), Dante's Disciples, Tombs, the Dark Destiny trilogy, and Bereshith Publishing's Strange Attraction: Turns of the Midnight Carnival Wheel, with many additional works both in print and in progress.
A member of both the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association and Horror Writers Association (serving as both Vice-President and Trustee), his credits also include over a dozen published works of short fiction, and a decade of work as a music critic and photojournalist. He has also co-written and directed the digital feature Terror at Tate Manor, which debuted as a direct-to-Internet film.
His literary works have been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award, and is the recipient of the first Prometheus Special Award presented by the Liberatarian Futurist Society with co-editor Brad Linaweaver for Free Space.
In 1987, he founded Dragon Con, North America's largest convention dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, comics, gaming and the popular arts. He served as its chairman for fourteen years and oversaw its growth from 1,400 attendance in its inaugural year to over 20,000 in 2000.
He has also chaired the 1990 Atlanta Origins convention, the 1992 Georgia World Fantasy Convention and the Nebula Awards Weekend, and both the Atlanta World Horror Convention and the North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC) in 1995. In 1999, he hosted the Atlanta World Horror Convention and Los Angeles's Bram Stoker Award Weekend.
Civil Rights Action
In 2000, he was arrested for an alleged domestic incident following an anonymous phone call; the case remains unresolved years later. A Federal Civil Rights Action was filed against the local county by Kramer in 2001; it is presently pending review by the U.S. Supreme Court.
External links
- Ed Kramer's official web site (http://www.edkramer.com/)
- Terror at Tate Manor official web site (http://www.tatemanor.com/)
- Ed Kramer Defense Fund web site (http://www.edkramer.org/)