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Kelley Wilde
| Full Name: |
Reb
MacRath |
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Buffalo, New York, USA |
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Writer |
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American |
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Biography
After graduating from Buffalo's State University College, Reb MacRath moved to Toronto, Canada, for the next ten years as a conscientious objector. In that time, he built a successful practice as a freelance writer and had a syndicated column that appeared in all major Canadian papers. He was well on his way as a writer when Jimmy Carter's amnesty paved the way for return to the States.
He immediately took a bus out to San Francisco with three hundred bucks in his pocket, no contacts and no job, and decided to write his novel. The book went through two incarnations. The first failed across the board: a huge nonfiction book called The Green Card, about Americans in exile. But two years later, he had a dark thriller grounded in his experience as a stateless person. The Suiting was published by Tor Books, under the name Kelley Wilde. The novel went on to win a Stoker Award for Best First Novel, and Don D'Amassa cited the book in his Essential Works of Horror Fiction.
Stereotyped as a horror writer, he wrote three more horror novels to fulfil contracts. Then in 1993, he retired from the genre and went to the desert to learn how to write the sort of books he loves to read: thrillers which are high-octane blends of style, humor, romance and suspense.
Since that time, he has written short Christmas chillers; crime tales starring Boss MacTavin, a Southern Scot, and inspired by Have Gun Will Travel; and, finally, a pair of books about writing and traditional publishing.
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Works in the WWEnd Database
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