John Morressy (December 8, 1930 – March 20, 2006) was an American

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and

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writer and a professor of English at

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. He died at Sullivan, New Hampshire where he lived.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''The Blackboard Cavalier'' (1966) * ''The Addison Tradition'' (1968) * ''A Long Communion'' (1974) * ''The Humans of Ziax II'' (1974) * ''The Windows of Forever'' (1975) * ''The Extraterritorial'' (1977) * ''The Drought on Ziax II'' (1978) * ''The Juggler'' (1996) ;Del Whitby series * ''Starbrat'' (1972) * ''Stardrift'' (1973; also known as ''Nail Down the Stars'') * ''Under a Calculating Star'' (1975) * ''A Law for the Stars'' (1976) * ''Frostworld and Dreamfire'' (1977) * ''The Mansions of Space'' (1983) ;Iron Angel series * ''Ironbrand'' (1980) * ''Greymantle'' (1981) * ''Kingsbane'' (1982) * ''The Time of the Annihilator'' (1985) ;Kedrigern series * ''A Voice for Princess'' (1986) * ''The Questing of Kedrigern'' (1987) *''Kedrigern in Wanderland'' (1988) * ''Kedrigern and the Charming Couple'' (1989) * ''A Remembrance for Kedrigern'' (1990) * ''The Domesticated Wizard'' (2002; omnibus including ''A Voice for Princess'' and ''The Questing of Kedrigern'', plus 6 short stories) * ''Dudgeon and Dragons'' (2003; omnibus including ''Kedrigern in Wanderland'' and ''Kedrigern and the Dragon comme il faut-New'', plus 8 short stories) ;The Apprentice Kedrigern (Young Kedrigern) series * ''Young Kedrigern and First Spell'' (published only in

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, 1998) * ''Young Kedrigern and Search for the Past'' (published only in

, 1999) * ''Young Kedrigern: The Making of A Wizard'' (published only in

, 2001)

Short fiction

;Collections * ''Other Stories'' (1983) ;StoriesShort stories unless otherwise noted. * "Autumn Sunshine for Moe Joost" (1979) * "No More Pencils, No More Books" (1979) * "The Last Jerry Fagin Show" (1980) * "A Hedge Against Alchemy" (1981) * "Final Version" (1982; included in ''100 Short Short Fantasy Stories'') * "Stoneskin" (1984) * "Spirits from the Vasty Deep" (1986) * "Alaska" (1989) * "Timekeeper" (1990) * "A Boy and His Wolf: Three Versions of a Fable" (1993; in the anthology ''Xanadu'') * "The Persistence of Memory" (1998) * "Laugh Clone Laugh" (''Playboy Magazine'', May 1986)

References

External links

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Independent (UK) Obituary
April 1, 2009. 1930 births 2006 deaths 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American short story writers American male novelists American male short story writers American science fiction writers Franklin Pierce University faculty The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction people People from Sullivan, New Hampshire Writers from Brooklyn {{US-sf-writer-stub