![]() One of his most popular novels, Summer of Night (Putnam, 1991), a coming-of-age/horror novel, took its inspiration from that idyllic time. "My favorite years were spent in Brimfield," Simmons recalls. He and Wayne, his younger brother, moved across much of the Midwest (Des Moines, Iowa Chillicothe and Brimfield, Ill.) with their parents before settling in Pittsboro, near Indianapolis (an older brother, Ted, had already moved out of the house). ![]() Because of his father's job, Simmons's childhood was a peripatetic one. His father, Robert, was a manager for the Sun Electric Corporation and sold automotive testing equipment. Though Dan Simmons was born in sedate Peoria, Ill., in 1948, Simmons's childhood was anything but sedentary. His books are published in 27 foreign counties as well as the U.S. Dan is one of the few novelists whose work spans the genres of fantasy, science fiction, horror, suspense, historical fiction, noir crime fiction, and mainstream literary fiction. ![]() Dan Simmons is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle. ![]()
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