Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons is now one of the few contemporary authors whose work spans all well-known genres, from the classic novel to thriller, fantasy and science fiction. Since childhood, dreaming of a writing career, the teenager re-read hundreds of books, and subsequently elements of the works of Homer, Jeffrey Chaucer and Bram Stoker organically fit into his own stories and made them masterpieces of American and world literature.

Dan Simmons was born on April 4, 1948 in the densely populated city of Peoria, located in the central part of the US state of Illinois. Open sources contain very little information about the early biography of the future writer, which took place in small settlements, among people who preferred a quiet, cozy provincial life.

These places were later described in the novels Winter Ghosts and Summer of the Night. It is possible that close friends of the author, postmen, librarians, or just neighbors along the street became the prototypes of the heroes. And the characters of parents Robert and Catherine and their older children Wayne and Ted were used in the creation of almost all the main characters.

Having barely learned to read, Dan "swallowed" all the literature at home, and by the 3rd grade he became a regular visitor to the library and took 10-15 books every week. Over time, the boy developed a taste for high-quality works, and he began to consciously approach the choice of works and look in them for answers to questions that arose in his head.

It was then that Simmons decided on his future profession and began to work hard to become a writer in his adult life. In the final class, the young man was offered to follow in the footsteps of his older brother and master the profession of an artist, but the desire to go his own way prevented him from making the wrong choice and tipped the scales in the direction of education at a humanitarian university.

As a result, in 1970, Simmons graduated from the men's college in Crawfordsville and received a bachelor's degree in English. For his contribution to the work of the student newspaper, the young man received an award from the university society, which helped him continue his studies and become a master of education and a professional teacher. Until 1989, Dan worked as a teacher and over time developed an author's program aimed at developing the writing talent of gifted, original thinking children.

Despite the fact that teaching was time-consuming, Simmons did not abandon his own literary studies. He tried unsuccessfully to publish his written works and one day got to a writing conference organized at a Colorado university. At the seminar that followed the theoretical part, the man presented to the judge, the famous science fiction writer Harlan Ellison, a short story entitled "The River Styx flows backwards."

The picky winner of many prestigious awards liked the work so much that he shook hands with a novice colleague and publicly declared that Dan was a real writer. After that, Simmons won a literary competition established by the Twilight Zone, and seriously thought about how to make his own writing for a living.

In 1983, after the publication of the novel "Remembering Siri", which later became the story of the Consul in the fantastic tetralogy "Song of Hyperion", Dan received a good fee and realized that the dream was gradually becoming a reality.

His debut novel "The Song of Kali", published in 1985, helped the American writer achieve complete financial independence. A fusion of love lyrics, eroticism, thriller and fiction, the book won over the most serious critics and won the World Fantasy Award for the best work of a major literary form.

The next books, which were published in the late 1980s, were the dramatic story "Phases of Gravity" and the fantastic book "Joy Falling," which tells the story of killers with telepathic abilities who played chess with the lives of innocent people.

The main work published during this period was 2 parts of the fantastic epic "Hyperion" and "The Fall of Hyperion", in which Simmons absorbed the experience accumulated over the centuries in the history of world literature, and fully revealed his own writing talent.

Another work in the genre of space fiction was a dilogy called The Martian Iliad, which consisted of the books Ilion and Olympus. This time, the author turned to the ancient Greek epic, created many centuries ago by the great Homer, and rewrote the events of the Trojan War in his own way.

Fans of Simmons' talent were looking forward to the adaptation of these works, but the shooting was constantly postponed, the release date was postponed indefinitely. The same thing happened with Songs of Hyperion, which, if performed well, could have overshadowed the popular TV series Game of Thrones, but the directors were afraid to take on such a complex project, and the film was never put into production.

A different fate awaited the book "Terror", written and published in 2007. A series of tragic and fantastic events that happened to the participants of the sea expedition to the Northwest Passage in 2018 formed the basis of the series of the same name, the 1st season of which was successfully held on the American cable channel AMC.

In general, in every book of the writer, the literary language and artistic techniques are aimed at creating a special atmosphere that emphasizes what is happening in the context of a specific time and place. So, in the book "Children of the Night", where events unfold in Romania and Transylvania, the author, with the help of color epithets, immersed the reader in the world of the successors of the bloody deed of Count Dracula, implying the era of the revolution that took the lives of hundreds of innocent people.

Dan Simmons' first and only wife was his longtime girlfriend Karen Lodgerquist. The couple married in 1982 and have never parted since then.

In 1987, with the royalties received from the sale of The Song of Cali, the couple bought a house in the Front Rage, where their only daughter, Jane, was born on the day work on Hyperion was completed.

Literary work required solitude, and the young family began building a cozy estate in Windwalker, choosing for this a relatively flat site in the Rocky Mountains. Soon the house, located at an altitude of 2.5 thousand meters and guarded by a huge Shrike figure, received guests, and further events of the writer's personal life took place there.

Many fans dreamed of seeing the place where Dan created the best works, but the writer does not maintain an Instagram account and does not allow journalists to photograph his home.

Fans of Dan Simmons' work are used to the fact that the writer publishes a new story or novel every year. But in the 2010s, only 3 books appeared in stores: the psychological detective "Flashback", the fantastic thriller "Abomination" and the crime drama "Fifth Heart", which was included in the series "Free Transcriptions. Sherlock Holmes".

It turned out that the author was working on a new piece and on March 3, 2019, he posted on Facebook an excerpt from the novel "Omega Canyon".

"Better to break a man's back than the spine of a book." “Life is bloody cruel. Priceless memories are lost among everyday trifles. " "We are all soul eaters." "When you are dealing with fools, after a while you begin to understand the train of their thoughts." "Empathy and love are inseparable and incomprehensible."

1985 - "The Song of Kali" 1989 - "Joy fell" 1989 - "Hyperion" 1990 - "The Fall of Hyperion" 1991 - "Summer of the Night" 1992 - "Children of the Night" 1996 - "Endymion" 1997 - "Endymion Rising" 1999 - The Bell on Hamu "2003 -" Ilion "2005 -" Olympus "2007 -" Terror "2009 -" Drud, or the man in black "2011 -" Abomination "2015 -" Fifth Heart "2019 -" Omega Canyon "

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Dan Simmons Net Worth 2022

Dan Simmons ' s revenue is $ 1.3M in 2022. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Dan Simmons and could vary in the range between $ 777.8K - $ 1.4M.

Dan Simmons Net Worth 2021

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Dan Simmons Net Worth 2020

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Dan Simmons Net Worth 2019

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Dan Simmons Net Worth 2018

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Dan Simmons Net Worth 2017

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Dan Simmons Net Worth 2016

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