John Kessel Collection of Science Fiction Magazines 1951-2011

Dr. John Kessel is an emeritus professor of creative writing and American literature at North Carolina State University. A winner of the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the Locus Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, Kessel has taught at NC State University since 1982. Kessel helped organize and served as the first director of the university's Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing.

Dr. Kessel was born in Buffalo, New York in 1950. He earned a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in English and physics at the University of Rochester in 1972, and his Master of Arts and Ph.D. at the University of Kansas in 1974 and 1981 respectively. Dr. Kessel first won a Nebula Award in 1982, for his novella "Another Orphan."

His books include Good News from Outer Space, Corrupting Dr. Nice, and The Pure Product. His story collection, Meeting in Infinity, was named a notable book of 1992 by the New York Times Book Review. With James Patrick Kelly he edited the anthologies Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, and most recently, The Secret History of Science Fiction. His collection The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories contains the 2008 Nebula-Award-winning story Pride and Prometheus.”

His novel The Moon and the Other was published by Simon and Schuster Inc. in April 2017.

The John Kessel Collection of Science Fiction Magazines contains issues from various publications of science fiction. Included in this collection are several stories by Dr. John Kessel as well as other noteworthy authors like Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card, George R. R. Martin, and Ursula K. LeGuin. Materials range in date from 1951 to 2011.

This collection is arranged alphabetically by title of publication.

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[Identification of item], John Kessel Collection of Science Fiction Magazines, MC 00670, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

Gift of John Kessel, 2019 (Accession 2019.0171)

Processed by: Angelique Marrero, Arianna Hinton, Mark Klose, Hank Jackson, James Stephens, Mollie Frazier, Oliver Robinson, and Rachel White, 2019 August; machine-readable finding aid by: Clara Wilson, 2019 August