John Peyton Cooke
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Senior Director |
| Location | New York, NY, United States |
| Introduction | I was born in Amarillo, Texas, and grew up in Laramie, Wyoming. I'm the author of several novels including THE LAKE, OUT FOR BLOOD, TORSOS, THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER, HAVEN, THE RAPE OF GANYMEDE, and THE FALL OF LUCIFER. My novel TORSOS was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Mystery (1993). My short story "After You've Gone" was selected for BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2003. My other short fiction has been published in Christopher Street, Weird Tales, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and THE VALANCOURT BOOK OF HORROR STORIES, VOL. 4 . . . and some of it is collected in AFTER YOU'VE GONE AND OTHER OUTRÉ TALES. I currently live in the New York metropolitan area. |
| Favorite Books | DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes, MOBY-DICK by Herman Melville, THE HORSEMAN ON THE ROOF by Jean Giono, LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad, THE SPIDER'S HOUSE by Paul Bowles, MYRA BRECKINRIDGE by Gore Vidal, LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov, PSYCHO by Robert Bloch, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME by Andre Aciman, FINISTERE by Fritz Peters, MELMOTH THE WANDERER by Charles Robert Maturin, FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley, PASSAGE TO INDIA by E. M. Forster, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh, ALONE IN BERLIN by Hans Fallada, DEATH IN VENICE by Thomas Mann, REBECCA by Daphne du Maurier, THE GOSPEL OF LAZARUS by Richard Zimler, THE NAME OF THE ROSE by Umberto Eco, FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM by Umberto Eco, THE COUNTERFEITERS by Andre Gide, THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY by John le Carre, THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James, THE SCARLET LETTER by Nathaniel Hawthorne, FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies, DULUTH by Gore Vidal, THE GO-BETWEEN by L. P. Hartley, THE HIRELING by L. P. Hartley, A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute, EARTHLY POWERS by Anthony Burgess, TIRANT LO BLANC by Joanot Martorell. |