Matt Ruff
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Matt Ruff is an author who graduated from Cornell University. His first book, Fool on the Hill (published in 1988) gained an early cult following that continues to this day. His second book Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy helped him to become a fully settled fictional writer. What appears to be novel about a scuril and in a way fascinating future is indeed a bitter comment on what might actually develop out of recent New York in a nearby future. Not only in the United States, but also in Europe Ruff became well-known and his books underground bestsellers. His third book Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls, has nothing to do with science-fiction or fantasy. But the story of the book, dealing with multiple personalities, contains a lot of fantastic elements, which let remain a feeling of typical Matt Ruff stories. The novel has been long-listed for the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and has already won the 2003 James Tiptree, Jr. Award, a PNBA Book Award, and a Washington State Book Award. His books have been published in Germany, Italy, France, Japan and many more countries.
Ruff, whose full name is Matthew Theron Ruff, was born in 1965 and grew up in Queens/New York as the son of a Lutheran chaplain. He graduated in 1983 from Stuyvesant High School in New York City. After making his way through several cities on the east and west coast (1 year in Hartford, 7 months in Seattle, 1 year in Boston, 5 years in Portland, Maine) he married in Philadelphia and now lives in Seattle, Washington.
Works
- The Gospel According to St. Thomas (never published)
- Fool on the Hill (1988) - (ISBN 0802135358)
- Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy (1997) - (ISBN 0871136414)
- Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls (2003) - (ISBN 006095485X)
External links
- Homepage (http://home.att.net/~storytellers/)
- His visit to readerville.com (http://www.readerville.com/WebX?14@63.dReua1sOl2E.2@.f203bb8/0)
- Interview to readmag.com with Adam Liebling (http://www.readmag.com/Interviews/mattruff.htm)
- Text about MR (german) (http://www.subway.de/content/extras/index.php?pageLoad=http://www.subway.cc/magazin/1998/04matt.shtml&area=ARCHIV&frameHeight=4000&referrer=)
- Bibliography (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ch.cgi?Matt_Ruff)
- Biography and bibliography (german) (http://www.feministische-sf.de/einzelne_autorinnen/fsf_matt-ruff.html)de:Matt Ruff