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Dean Koontz #5 (“RARE-VINTAGE TYPED 8.5×11 SIGNED FAN THANK YOU LETTER”)’98…
**Note!-(“TLS-TYPED LETTER SIGNED”) Means; A “TYPED LETTER SIGNED BY THE CELEBRITY IN QUESTION”** etc…
(“TYPED 8.5×11 SIGNED FAN THANK YOU LETTER”)…
(“HAND SIGNED TYPED LETTER”)…
**SIGNATURE AUTHENTICATION IS STATED IN PARAGRAPH #4 OF THIS LETTER BY {“DEAN KOONTZ”}**
*Quote..”FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH, THE SIGNATURE BELOW IS MINE”*…
***”All OUR PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL ITEMS”***
***DESCRIPTION & INFORMATION***…
***”Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945) is an American author…
*His novels are broadly described as suspense thrillers, but also frequently incorporate elements of horror, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and satire…
*Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, with 14 hardcovers and 14 paperbacks reaching the number one position…
*Koontz wrote under a number of pen names earlier in his career, including “David Axton”, “Leigh Nichols” and “Brian Coffey”..
*He has sold over 450 million copies as reported on his official website…
*In his spare time, he wrote his first novel, (*)Star Quest, which was published in 1968…
*Koontz went on to write over a dozen science fiction novels…
*Seeing the Catholic faith as a contrast to the chaos in his family, Koontz converted in college because it gave him answers for his life, admiring its intellectual rigor and saying it permits a view of life that sees mystery and wonder in all things…
*He says he sees Catholicism as English writer and Catholic convert G.K. Chesterton did: that it encourages a “joy about the gift of life”…
*Koontz says that spirituality has always been part of his books, as are grace and our struggle as fallen souls, but he “never gets on a soapbox”…
*In the 1970s, Koontz began writing suspense and horror fiction, both under his own name and several pseudonyms, sometimes publishing up to eight books a year…
*Koontz has stated that he began using pen names after several editors convinced him that authors who switched back and forth between different genres invariably fell victim to “negative crossover” (alienating established fans and simultaneously failing to pick up any new ones)…
*Known pseudonyms used by Koontz during his career include Deanna Dwyer, K. R. Dwyer, Aaron Wolfe, David Axton, Brian Coffey, John Hill, Leigh Nichols, Owen West, Richard Paige and Anthony North…
*As Brian Coffey he wrote the “Mike Tucker” trilogy (Blood Risk, Surrounded, Wall of Masks) in acknowledged tribute to the Parker novels of Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake)…
*Many of Koontz’s pseudonymous novels are now available under his real name…
*Many others remain suppressed by Koontz, who bought back the rights to ensure they could not be republished; he has, on occasion, said that he might revise some for re-publication, but only 3 have appeared – (*)Demon Seed and (*)Invasion were both heavily rewritten before they were republished, and (*)Prison of Ice had certain sections bowdlerised…
*After writing full-time for more than ten years, Koontz’s acknowledged breakthrough novel was Whispers, published in 1980…
*The two books before that, (*)The Key to Midnight and (*)The Funhouse, also sold over a million copies, but were written under pen names…
*Thus although (*)Whispers is Koontz’s third paperback bestseller, it was the second credited to Koontz…
*His very first bestseller was (*)Demon Seed, the sales of which picked up after the release of the film of the same name in 1977, and sold over two million copies in one year…
*From 1979 on, Koontz’s books regularly became paperback bestsellers…
*His first hardcover bestseller, which finally promised some financial stability and lifted him out of the midlist hit-and-miss range was his book (*)Strangers…
*Since then, 12 hardcovers and 13 paperbacks written by Koontz have reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List…
*Bestselling science fiction writer Brian Herbert has stated that “I even went through a phase where I read everything that Dean Koontz wrote, and in the process I learned a lot about characterization and building suspense.”…
*In 1997 psychologist Katherine Ramsland published an extensive biography of Koontz based on interviews with him and his family…
*This “psychobiography” (as Ramsland called it) often showed the conception of Koontz’s characters and plots from events in his own life…
*Early author photos on the back of many of his novels show a balding Koontz with a mustache…
*After Koontz underwent hair transplantation surgery in the late 1990s, his subsequent books have featured a new clean-shaven appearance with a fuller head of hair…
*Koontz explained the change by claiming that he was tired of looking like G. Gordon Liddy…
*Many of his novels are set in and around Orange County, California…
*As of 2006 he lives there with his wife, Gerda (Cerra), in Newport Coast, California behind the gates of Pelican Hills…
*In 2008 he was the world’s sixth most highly paid author, tied with John Grisham, at $25 million annually…
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***BASIC INFORMATION***…
Category: Novelty…
Series: American Author…
Publication Debut: 1968…
location@Garage(“Vintage Photographs (Stars & Sports) BOOK-1”)(1)10-21-2016…
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