Marvin Kaye


Marvin Nathan Kaye is an American mystery, fantasy, science fiction, and horror author and editor. He is a World Fantasy Award winner and served as editor of Weird Tales Magazine.

Early years

Kaye was born in Philadelphia, the son of Morris and Theresa Kaye. He received a Bachelor of Arts in liberal arts at Penn State in 1960, as well as a Master of Arts in English literature and theater in 1962.

Career

Kaye served as a reporter for Grit Publishing Company from 1963 to 1965, an assistant managing editor for Business Travel Magazine in 1965 and a senior editor for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich from 1966 to 1970. He worked as a freelance writer in 1970 and artistic director of The Open Book in New York City, 1974. He was a lecturer at the New School for Social Research in New York City in 1975, taught at NYU as an Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing in 1976, and as an adjunct professor at Mercy College from 2001 to 2006. He also worked as an improvisational comic at The Jekyll and Hyde Club in 2005.
Kaye has edited numerous horror anthologies, and magazines such as H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror and Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine. An anthology he edited, The Fair Folk, won a World Fantasy Award in 2006.
In 2011, he became the editor of Weird Tales.
Kaye has also been a regular columnist, writing "" for Space and Time, a science fiction magazine. His column is exclusively on the Space and Time .
In 1975, Kaye co-founded The Open Book, a reader's theatre in New York City. The Open Book performed the 13th annual production of The Last Christmas Of Ebenezer Scrooge on December 12, 2010. Kaye adapted his own book for the play.
Kaye is a member of the Authors Guild, the Dramatists Guild of America, the Actors' Equity Association, The Broadway League, and The Sons of the Desert. He is also an honorary member of the Mark Twain Society.

Personal life

Kaye married Saralee Bransdorf; they have one child. He currently resides in New York.

Hillary Quayle

The novel A Cold Blue Light, 1983 is sometimes listed as a third volume of the trilogy, but it is unrelated. The third volume, Singer Among the Nightingales was not published before the death of Parke Godwin.

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