It would be a challenging year for Koontz and he would become even more determined to make it as a fiction author. Upon arriving at his workstation, he was informed that his predecessor had been beaten up by the kids he was to tutor and had to be hospitalized for several works. Following graduation from college, he got a job with the Appalachian Poverty Program, where he counseled and tutored underprivileged children. According to Rolling Stone, he is one of the most popular suspense novelists in America.ĭean Koontz was born and brought up in Pennsylvania and went to the Shippensburg State College. Dean is now one of no more than 12 authors that have achieved this feat.įurthermore, Dean Koontz’s novels have also been number-one bestsellers in countries as diverse as Sweden and Japan.Īccording to the New York Times, he writes satisfying, mastery, and psychologically complex works that are at times lyrical without ever being romantic or naive.ĭean has made a reputation writing about grotesque worlds much like those of Walker Percy or Flannery O’Conner. Koontz has had fourteen of his novels including “Sole Survivor,” “One Door Away from Heaven” and “Dragon Tears” become number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Over the years the author has had his works published in nearly 40 languages and has sold more than 500 million copies of his works.
When he was a senior in college he was the winner of the “Atlantic Monthly” fiction competition which is how he launched his fiction writing career. The “Nameless” series is a set of bestselling novels by the popular author Dean Koontz.
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