Born 1956 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States.
"Jack Womack was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1956, of poor, because honest, forebears. His childhood, best left to an imagination other than his own, could be called Kafkaesque would it not be a disservice to Kafka. Emerging unscathed from the effects of a haphazard education he moved to New York, which city he finds less inhospitable than the rest of the United States. In Womack's novels, New York is strange and unsettling, a city of joy and pain, horror and transcendence.
"Having worked in bookshops for twelve years, Mr Womack harbours no illusions as to the more practical concerns of his art. The only influences upon his writing to whom he will admit are Shirley Jackson and Charles Fort.
"'Weird compared to what?' is the precept by which Mr Womack has always found himself living. When not writing he occupies himself smoking, shopping, hanging around with women, smoking, reading, drinking and smoking. One day he intends to quit smoking. He feels a sinner in the paws of an unstable God". [publisher's bumpf]
Winner of the 1994 Philip K.Dick Memorial Award for his novel Elvissey (tied for Best Novel with Growing Up Weightless by John M.Ford).
Managing editor of the trade newpaper run by the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union.
"Womack's fiction may be determinedly non-cyber, but, with its commitment to using SF as a vehicle for social critique, it definitely has a punky edge. William Gibson once said that he thought he was more interested in basic economics and politics than the average blue sky SF writer. That counts double for Womack, whose fiction is packed with grimly amusing social satire and powerful little allegories exploring urban breakdown, class war and racial tensions". --Jim McClellan (from an interview with Jack Womack, 1995).
Parents: Ann Truitt Karrenbrock and Jack Womack, Sr.
Check Jim McClellan's homepage on the web for a full transcript:
http://www.gold.net/oneday/jim/
For a different interview with Jack Womack check:
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