 Born in New York City in 1946, Alan Dean Foster was raised in Los Angeles, California. After receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and a Master of Fine Arts in Cinema from UCLA (1968, l969) he spent two years as a copywriter for a small Studio City, California advertising and public relations firm.
His writing career began in 1968 when August Derleth purchased a long letter from him and published it as a short story in his biannual Arkham Collector Magazine.
His first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, was published in 1972 by Ballantine Books.
Foster's work to date includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as having produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as Star Wars, the first three Alien films, and Alien Nation.
Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first Star Trek movie. In addition to publication in English, his work has appeared and won awards throughout the world. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science-fiction ever to do so.
Alan Dean Foster lives in Arizona with his wife JoAnn. [edit]
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