Jeff Vandermeer Bio | Wiki
Jeff VanderMeer is an American editor, author, and literary critic. He initially worked with the New Weird literary genre, Jeff crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy. The trilogy’s first novel, titled Annihilation won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards. Director Alex Garland adapted the novel into a Hollywood film.
Among Jeff’s other novels include Shriek: An Afterword and Borne. He has edited such influential and award-winning anthologies as The New Weird, The Big Book of Science Fiction, and The Weird, with his wife Ann. Jeff has been called “one of the most remarkable practitioners of the literary fantastic in America today.”
The New Yorker named him the “King of Weird Fiction”. Even as his works bring in themes and elements from genres such as the New Weird, postmodernism, post-apocalyptic fiction, and eco-fiction, Jeff’s fiction is noted for eluding genre classifications. His writing has been described as “evocative” as it contains “intellectual observations both profound and disturbing.” Jeff’s work has been compared with the works of great writers of all times such as Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, and Henry David Thoreau.
Jeff Vandermeer Age
He was born on July 7, 1968, in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Jeff is 53 years old.
Jeff Vandermeer Height
He is a man of average stature. Jeff stands at the height of 5 ft 8 in ( Approx 1.73m).
Jeff Vandermeer Family
He was born to his parents in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Jeff spent much of his childhood in the Fiji Islands. His parents worked for the Peace Corps. After going back to the United States, Jeff spent time in Ithaca, New York, and Gainesville, Florida.
Jeff Vandermeer
He is a graduate of the University of Florida. Jeff attended the University for three years and took part in the Clarion Writers Workshop in 1992. At the age of 20, Jeff read Angela Carter’s novel The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, which he has said: “blew the back of my head off, rewired my brain: I had never encountered prose like that before, never such passion and boldness on the page.” Angela’s fiction inspired Jeff to both improve and be fearless with his own writing.
Jeff Vandermeer Wife
He married Ann VanderMeer (née Kennedy). The couple wedded in 2003 and they have 2 children. Ann is an American publisher, founder of Buzzcity Press, and editor. She became the second female editor of the horror magazine Weird Tales. Ann won a Hugo Award for her work as Fiction Editor of Weird Tales. She won the British Fantasy Award and the International Rhysling Award for her press and related periodicals
Jeff Vandermeer Annihilation | Annihilation Movie
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux published Jeff’s Southern Reach Trilogy consisting of the novels Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance in 2014. The story in those novels mainly focuses on a secret agency that manages expeditions into a location known as Area X which is an uninhabited and abandoned part of the United States that nature has started to reclaim after a mysterious world-changing event.
Jeff has said that his hike through St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge became the main inspiration for Area X and the series. Michel Bernanos’s book titled The Other Side of the Mountain became among the books that Jeff has cited as also having had an influence. The release of The trilogy in quick succession over an 8-month period has been called an innovative “Netflix-inspired strategy.”
The strategy used helped the third book to reach the New York Times Bestseller list, and also established Jeff as “one of the most forward-thinking authors of the decade.” The series was highly honored, Annihilation won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards for Best Novel.
Also, the entire trilogy became a finalist for the 2015 World Fantasy Award as well as the 2016 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis. Writer-director Alex Garland adapted Annihilation into a film of the same name. It stars Oscar Isaac, Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Jeff Vandermeer Borne | The Southern Reach Trilogy
He released a “biotech apocalypse” novel titled Borne in 2017. The novel gives a story about a scavenger named Rachel and a five-story-tall flying bear named Mord. Rachel tries to survive both a city “plunged into a primordial realm of myth, fable and fairy tale.” The novel was highly praised as with the Southern Reach trilogy. The Guardian said, “VanderMeer’s recent work has been Ovidian in its underpinnings, exploring the radical transformation of life forms and the seams between them.”
According to Publishers Weekly “like a dispatch from a world lodged somewhere between science fiction, myth, and a video game.” With Borne, Jeff has essentially invented a new literary genre called “weird literature.” Also, Paramount Pictures has optioned the film rights to Borne. Jeff released the novella The Strange Bird: A Borne Story in August 2017. The stand-alone story is set in the same world as Borne. However, it features different characters. A stand-alone short novel titled Dead Astronauts is set in the Borne universe and came out on December 3, 2019.
Jeff Vandermeer New Book
His upcoming novels include Hummingbird Salamander set ten seconds into the future and deals with “bioterrorism, climate change, and ecoterrorism. ” Also, the novel involves a young adult series called Jonathan Lambshead and the Golden Sphere. Currently, Jeff is working on a story called “The Three.” The story is based on the dead astronauts mentioned in Borne, along with another Southern Reach story.
Jeff Vandermeer Authority | Southern Reach
In 2014, he published a novel titled Authority, the second in a series of three books called the Southern Reach Trilogy.In an interview, Jeff stated that “if Annihilation is an expedition into Area X, then Authority is an expedition into the Southern Reach, the agency sending in the expeditions.” The novel came out in May 2014.
Jeff Vandermeer Ambergris | Finch
One of Jeff’s early successes was his 2001 short-story collection titled City of Saints and Madmen. The story revolves around the imaginary city of Ambergris. Several of his novels including Shriek: An Afterword (2006) and Finch (2009) were subsequently set in the same place. Finch won as a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Jeff’s novella The Transformation of Martin Lake won the World Fantasy Award in 2000.
Jeff Vandermeer Acceptance | Trilogy
In 2014, his novel titled Acceptance came out. Acceptance became the last in a series of three books called the Southern Reach Trilogy and came out on September 2, 2014, in the United States. The novel revolves around time and between the perspectives of other characters from the first two novels in the Southern Reach Trilogy.
Jeff Vandermeer Wonderbook
He takes part in teaching creative writing. One of the projects that Jeff does apart from writing includes holding an annual two-week program called Shared Worlds. The program aims at teaching creative writing to teenagers. Jeff has also taught at the Clarion Workshop as well as Trinity Prep School. Apart from his teaching, Jeff has also written guides to creative writing such as Wonderbook which won a BSFA Award and a Locus Award. Also, they nominated Wonderbook for a Hugo and World Fantasy Award.
Jeff Vandermeer Books
Novels
– 1996 Dradin, In Love ( collected in all editions of City of Saints and Madmen)
– 1999 The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris, by Duncan Shriek ( collected in all editions of City of Saints and Madmen)
– 2003 Veniss Underground
– 2006 Shriek: An Afterword
– 2008 Predator: South China Sea
– 2009 Finch
Southern Reach Trilogy: ( Annihilation (2014), Authority (2014), and acceptance (2014)
– 2017 Borne
– 2019 Dead Astronauts
– The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead:
– 2020 A Peculiar Peril
– 2021 Hummingbird Salamander
– The Journals of Doctor Mormeck (forthcoming)
– The Book Murderer (forthcoming)
Jeff Vandermeer Net Worth
The American editor, author, and literary critic has accumulated an estimated net worth of $4,692,672
How Old Is Jeff Vandermeer
Jeff is 53 years old. He was born on July 7, 1968, in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
Who Is Jeff Vandermeer
Jeff is an American editor, author, and literary critic. He initially worked with the New Weird literary genre, Jeff crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy.
Is Jeff Vandermeer Married
He married Ann VanderMeer (née Kennedy). The couple wedded in 2003 and they have 2 children. Ann, an American publisher, founder of Buzzcity Press, and editor became the second female editor of the horror magazine Weird Tales.