About the Author

John Grant

John Grant is the author of some seventy books. His nonfiction has included The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (with John Clute), and a series of books on the misuse and misunderstanding of science, begun with Discarded Science and continued most recently with Denying Science. His fiction has included novels like The World, The Far-Enough Window and The Dragons of Manhattan as well as numerous short stories, some of which have been collected as Take No Prisoners. For his nonfiction work he has received the Hugo (twice), the World Fantasy Award, and a number of other awards and nominations.


His A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir, the largest film noir encyclopedia ever published, appeared in October 2013 from Limelight. He is currently working on a YA book provisionally called The Young Person’s Guide to Bullshit, scheduled for publication by Zest in Fall 2014.