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Born 1951 in Mineola, New York, United States.
"After graduating from the University of Notre Dame in 1972 -- where he did not meet Roger Maris -- Kelly was employed by a Massachusetts-based architectural firm as a proposal writer, and later as coordinator of public relations. In 1974, he attended Clarion, the summer workshop for aspiring science-fiction and fantasy authors, and has been a full-time writer since 1977. Kelly has had an eclectic literary career, writing novels, short stories, essays, reviews, poetry, plays, and a planetarium show. His novels include Planet of Whispers (1984), Freedom Beach (with John Kessel; 1985), Look Into the Sun (1989), and Wildlife (1994); in addition to these SF novels, his work embraces mainstream, fantasy, and horror. Kelly's short fiction has been translated into eleven languages, many of his stories have appeared in various best-of-the-year anthologies, and in 1996 he received the coveted Hugo Award for his novelette 'Think like a Dinosaur.' An avid gardener, skier, and roller blader, the author resides in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with his wife and three children." [publisher's bumpf, Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories , US hbk, 1997]
"In the midst of the cyberpunk-humanist dustup of the mideighties, when the conventional terms of the debate held that no writer could be interested in both traditional fiction of character with the gloss of high art and in cutting-edge technology with an anticultural bent, Kelly was the only writer in the humanist camp to be included in Mirrorshades , the definitive cyberpunk anthology." --John Kessel (in the Foreword, Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories , US hbk, 1997).
"I don't like the way dogs smell. I can't say I'm fond of their slobber -- or any other canine effluent, for that matter. I don't much care for them in the flesh and I certainly don't like them in fiction... I freely acknowledge this irrational prejudice. I suspect it comes from sharing a house with three cats and two ferrets." --James Patrick Kelly (in the Afterword "Dancing with Nancy, Dancing on Air by Nancy Kress, US chapbook, 1997).
James Patrick Kelly Homepage
(his own personal website...
"which has some bio, some fiction and some essays" --Jim Kelly.)
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