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Biography

Name: John Holbrook Vance
Variant Name: Peter Held, John Holbrook, John Van See, Alan Wade, Jack Vance
Birth Date: August 28, 1916
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of John Holbrook Vance
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John Holbrook Vance was born in San Francisco, the son of Charles Albert and Edith Hoefler Vance. Raised on a ranch in the San Joaquin Valley, he was educated at the University of California, where he took a B.A. in 1942. During World War II he served...


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John Holbrook Vance (b. August 28, 1916) is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author, who wrote the four-book Dying Earth series. Contents 1 Quotes and text from the Demon Princes novels 1.1 The Killing Machine 2 Quotes and text from the...


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John Holbrook Vance (born August 28, 1916 in San Francisco, California) is generally described as an American fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John...


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Utopian Studies
The Work of Jack Vance: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide.
01/01/1997: 591 words, approx. 2 pages
Jerry Hewett, and Daryl F. Mallett. Bibliographies of Modern Authors, No. 29. San Bernadino, CA: The Borgo Press, 1994. xxii + 293 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). As Robert Silverberg remarks in his introductory appreciation of the writing of Jack Vance, "even...
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The Washington Post
Jack Vance's Courtly Elegance
03/27/1988: 2,367 words, approx. 8 pages
JACK VANCE has been writing for more than 40 years and is a genuine grandmaster of science fiction and fantasy. (See Book Report on page 15 for an interview with Vance). With his first book, The Dying Earth, he displayed his characteristic tone, a...
 


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