David Sandner

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David Matthew Sandner (born 1966) [1] is an author and editor of fantasy literature and a professor at California State University, Fullerton.

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Education and career

Sandner has a master's degree from San Francisco State University and a doctorate from the University of Oregon. [2] His doctoral thesis was titled The Fairy Way of Writing: Fantastic literature from the romance revival to Romanticism, 1712–1830, and was completed in 2000. [3] He is a professor in the Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics at California State University, Fullerton. [2]

Books

Sandner's books include:

Fiction

Non-fiction

As editor

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References

  1. Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2022-04-05
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