Frederic S. Durbin is an American writer and novelist of fantasy and

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. Durbin's first novel, ''

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'', was published by Arkham House in

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. It was nominated for an International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel. His second novel, ''The Star Shard'', was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2012. ''A Green and Ancient Light'' (edited by Navah Wolfe) was published by

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in 2016.

Biography

Frederic S. Durbin was born in

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. He graduated from Taylorville High School and attended Concordia College where he graduated ''

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''. He taught English at Niigata University in Japan from 1989 to 2011. He is married to Dr. Julie Durbin, a humanities professor at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, PA.

Bibliography

Novels

* Dragonfly (Arkham House, 1999) * The Star Shard (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012) * A Green and Ancient Light (Saga Press, 2016)

Short fiction

;A more complete bibliography availabl
here

References

External links

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