A. A. Attanasio, born in Newark, New Jersey at the exact midpoint of the 20th century and terrorized from childhood by the threat of thermonuclear apocalypse, grew up convinced he would never grow up. Liberated from any hope of a future, he committed himself early to ultimate questions. In 1965, he published his first inquiry into the nature of evil with Stan Lee in issue #36 of The Amazing Spider-Man. Twenty-two novels and two short story collections later, the eclectic author is giddy to find that the world is still here, his two daughters have grown and left home to live meaningful lives, and hiding from death in books actually turned out to be a life.
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