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Christopher Buehlman

Nascido: February 22, 1969 – Tampa, Florida, United States

Christopher Buehlman is an American novelist and performer whose work spans horror, dark fantasy, and historical fiction. He is best known for Those Across the River, Between Two Fires, The Blacktongue Thief, and The Daughters' War. A USA Today bestselling author, he also won the 2007 Bridport Prize in Poetry.

Biografia e Jornada do Autor

Christopher Buehlman was born in Florida in 1969 and grew up around Tampa Bay, a self-described misfit who gravitated early toward horror, fantasy, games, and late-night television. He studied French at university, then took an unusual apprenticeship on the Renaissance festival circuit as Christophe the Insultor, a comic performer whose verbal dexterity later fed his fiction. By his own account, his twenties were devoted largely to poetry, his thirties to plays, and only afterward did the novel become his central form. Publishers have since described him as an author, comedian, and screenwriter, and he has lived in Ohio with his wife and rescue animals. ((https://www.christopherbuehlmanauthor.com/about/))

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They had all eaten so much grass that they had green piss
-Between Two Fires
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I was about to die
-The Blacktongue Thief
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Our two species are wed in death
-The Daughters' War
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This was some of the biggest fun I ever had
-The Pen and the Sword: Learning Medieval Weaponry
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He’s a vulgar, self-interested fellow, but not without wit, and I hope you’ll agree he shines a little light into the gloaming
-Announcing The Blacktongue Thief
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My personal suspicion is that humour is short-circuited horror
-The Bookseller Interview

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Vozes da Comunidade

"Christopher Buehlman is a writer to watch"

F. Paul Wilson

"Buehlman packs suspense and secrets into his debut novel"

Publishers Weekly

"I can't wait to see what Christopher Buehlman does next"

Brent Weeks

"By combining modern horror dynamics with a convincing medieval setting, Christopher Buehlman secures his status among today's leading dark fantasy authors"

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"Buehlman is in general a lovely stylist"

Library Journal

"This irreverent fantasy is narrated superbly by author Christopher Buehlman"

AudioFile Magazine

"An author to watch, Buehlman is now two for two in delivering eerie, offbeat novels with admirable literary skill"

Kirkus Reviews

"It is clear that Mr. Buehlman brings his poetic background to bear in creating the rhythm and meter of the story"

New York Journal of Books

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