Name Kit Reed | Role Author | |
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Education Notre Dame of Maryland University (1954) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Nominations Hugo Award for Best New Author of 1958 Books Thinner than thou, Little Sisters of the Apoc, Weird women - wired wo, The Baby Merchant, The Night Children | ||
American science fiction and mystery writer Kit Reed passed away at 85
Kit Reed is an American author of both speculative fiction and literary fiction, as well as psychological thrillers under the pseudonym Kit Craig.
Reed was born in San Diego, California. Her first short story, "The Wait" (1958), was published by Anthony Boucher in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of a five-year grant literary from the Abraham Woursell Foundation. The New York Times Book Review says this about her short fiction: "Reed has a prose style that's pure dry ice, displayed in dystopian stories that specialize in bitterness and dislocation." The Wall Street Journal says: "The title of Kit Reed's [2013] selection of her own short stories, "The Story Until Now" (Wesleyan, 442 pages, $35), reminds us that although she has been writing award-winning fiction for some 50 years, she's still accelerating. The scope of these 35 stories is immense, their variety unmatched."
Her stories have appeared in venues ranging from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction to the Yale Review and the Kenyon Review, and have been widely anthologized. Many of her stories are published as feminist science fiction and she has been nominated for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award three times. Her novel, Thinner Than Thou, was given the ALA Alex Award by the YALA. She is Resident Writer at Wesleyan University.