Only Begotten Daughter (45 page)

Born in 1947, James Morrow has been writing fiction ever since he, as a seven-year-old living in the Philadelphia suburbs, dictated “The Story of the Dog Family” to his mother, who dutifully typed it up and bound the pages with yarn. This three-page, six-chapter fantasy is still in the author’s private archives. Upon reaching adulthood, Jim produced nine novels of speculative fiction, including the critically acclaimed Godhead Trilogy. He has won the World Fantasy Award (for
Only Begotten Daughter
and
Towing Jehovah
), the Nebula Award (for “Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge” and the novella
City of Truth
), and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for the novella
Shambling Towards Hiroshima
). A fulltime fiction writer, Jim makes his home in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife, his son, an enigmatic sheepdog, and a loopy beagle. He is hard at work on a novel about Darwinism and its discontents.

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ON THE BOARDWALK (IN ATLANTIC CITY)

Words and Music MACK GORDON and JOSEPH MYROW

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Copyright © 1990 by James Morrow

Cover design by Mauricio Diaz

978-1-4804-3859-0

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