James Enge is the pseudonym of James M. Pfundstein, an American

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author. His best known work is the ongoing ''Morlock the Maker'' series. His first novel in the series, ''Blood of Ambrose'', was nominated for the

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in 2010. His newest series, '' A Tournament of Shadows'', tells the origin story of his famous character Morlock Ambrosius.

Biography

Pfundstein has a PhD from the University of Minnesota and is a teaching professor at Bowling Green State University in the World Languages and Cultures Department. He is represented by the Onyxhawke Agency.

Bibliography

Novels

Morlock the Maker * '' Blood of Ambrose'' (

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), * '' This Crooked Way'' (

), * '' The Wolf Age'' (

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), A Tournament of Shadows * '' A Guile of Dragons'' (

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), * '' Wrath-Bearing Tree'' (

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), * '' The Wide World's End'' (

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Morlock the Maker Short Stories published in Black Gate, online and elsewhere

* Turn Up This Crooked Way (2005)
"A Covenant With Death"

(2005)

(2007) * The Lawless Hours (2007)

(2008) * Payment In Full

(2009)

(2010) * "Laws for the Blood" (2020)

Works in the episodic novel This Crooked Way

* The War Is Over

* An Old Lady and a Lake * Interlude: Book of Witness * The Lawless Hours * Payment in Full * Destroyer * Whisper Street * Interlude: The Anointing * Traveller's Dream * Where Nurgnatz Dwells * Interlude: How the Story Ends * Spears of Winter Rain * Calendar and Astronomy * Sources and Backgrounds for Arthurian Legends

Academic

* Per astra ad aspera: Aeneid 6.725. In Vergilius. v. 43; 1997. .p.Vergilian Society. p. 22-30.
Review of S. Byrne, E.P. Cueva, Veritatis Amicitiaeque Causa: Essays in Honor of Anna Lydia Motto and John R. Clark in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review
* Doctoral Dissertation : Not Only the City: Cosmography in the Tragedies of Seneca (2000)
Λαμπροὺϛ Δυνάσταϛ: Aeschylus, Astronomy and the Agamemnon The Classical Journal, Vol. 98, No. 4 (Apr. - May, 2003), pp. 397-410

(2004) * Libretto Translation of Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne (2005) * Libretto Translation of La Virtu de’ Strali d'Amore (2007)

References

External links

James Enge Official websiteJames Enge's BlogJames Enge's TwitterJames Enge (ology)James Enge on Facebook
Joseph Mallozzi
Review of Blood of Ambrose at Fantasy Book Critic
* ttp://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2009/05/interview-with-james-enge-interviewed.html Fantasy Book Critic Interview* {{DEFAULTSORT:Enge, James 21st-century American novelists American fantasy writers American male novelists University of Minnesota alumni Living people American male short story writers 21st-century American short story writers 21st-century American male writers Year of birth missing (living people) Bowling Green State University faculty