Christopher Priest


Chris Priest was born in Cheshire, England. He began writing soon after leaving school and has been a fulltime freelance since 1968. He has published ten novels, three short story collections and a number of other books, including critical work, biographies, novelizations and children’s non-Fiction. He has won the World Fantasy Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (both for his novel The Prestige), has been nominated four times for the Hugo award, and in 2001 was awarded the Prix Utopia for lifetime achievement in fantastic literature. "The Discharge" was awarded the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire on the same occasion. He is married to the writer Leigh Kennedy. They live in Hastings, England, with their two children.