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Sam Weller | |
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| Born | Lake Forest, Illinois |
| Occupation | Author, journalist, lecturer |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Biography, journalism, essays, fiction, arts criticism |
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Sam Weller is an American journalist and author, best known as writer Ray Bradbury's authorized biographer.
Weller was born in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was raised in Malibu, California and in Long Lake Minnesota. [1]
Weller's 2005 book, The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury was a Los Angeles Times best-seller, winner of the 2005 Society of Midland Authors Award for Best Biography, [2] and a Bram Stoker Award nominee. [3] Weller’s 2010 book, Listen to the Echoes, The Ray Bradbury Interviews is a collection of interviews, photos, mementos, and artifacts and a companion book to The Bradbury Chronicles. It was also a Bram Stoker Award nominee. [4] With Mort Castle, Weller co-edited the anthology Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury. The anthology was a Shirley Jackson Award nominee. [5]
In 2014, Weller edited Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview (Melville House), which features Weller's last interview with Bradbury, and recounts Bradbury's influences, creative processes, and love for writing and reading. The book also included several previously unpublished rough draft essays by Bradbury, dictated to Weller. Also in 2014, IDW Comics released a five-issue Shadow Show comic book series curated and largely scripted by Weller and Mort Castle. [6] [7] [ better source needed ] The graphic novel compendium of this series was the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Graphic Novel in 2015. [8]
In September 2020, Weller's collection of short stories, Dark Black, was published by Hat & Beard Press. [9] Newcity said: "With this collection, Weller is making an argument that he’s more than Bradbury’s chronicler. Weller is arguing he’s Bradbury’s literary heir. By sheer story quality alone, Weller makes a good damn argument." [10]
Weller is the former Midwest correspondent for Publishers Weekly magazine. He has written for The Paris Review , Playboy, All Things Considered, Slate Magazine , The Huffington Post , National Public Radio and The Los Angeles Review of Books . [11]
Weller's short fiction has appeared in books, literary journals and magazines, including the Chicago Reader , Printers Row Journal, and Rosebud. His pop-cultural essays have appeared in publications including Post Road, Huffington PostAnnalemma, and PopMatters. [12]
Former Paramount Studios producer and Development Chief for the Robert Evans film company said in an interview on the "Too Opinionated" podcast in 2022 that he was developing a few projects with Weller, one in the "horror space." [13]
Weller was a tenured associate professor at Columbia College Chicago in its English and Creative Writing Department from 2005 to 2022. [14] [15] On July 8, 2022, the college terminated Weller for violating its sexual harassment policies after investigating extensive allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment by a faculty colleague who recounted Weller's alleged abuse of her in a lengthy Medium post. [14] [16] [17]
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