Kevin Andrew Murphy
Murphy at Westercon in 2011
Murphy at Westercon in 2011
OccupationAmerican writer

Kevin Andrew Murphy is an American novelist and game writer from Northern California.

Education

He is a graduate of University of California at Santa Cruz and has a Master of Arts from University of Southern California.

Career

He has written gamebooks for Steve Jackson Games and White Wolf. He is one of the contributors to the Wild Cards book series edited by George R. R. Martin. His first solo novel, Penny Dreadful, was released in 2007[citation needed]. He is also the designer of several fonts on the theme of witchcraft for Scriptorium Fonts.

He wrote the essay "Unseen Horrors and Shadowy Manipulations" in the compilation Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show.[1] In a review in School Library Journal, Christine C. Menefee says his essay "documents instances of censorship and the attempts of network and advertisers to reshape Buffy to suit their purposes."[2]

He completed the novel Drum into Silence (2002) posthumously for Jo Clayton.[3]

His work has been published in the Shit Creek Review.[4]

He has worked as a staff type designer for Scriptorium Fonts.[5]

Bibliography

Novels

Wild Cards universe

Short fiction

Gamebook (partial)

References

  1. ^ Yeffeth, G. (2013). Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. BenBella Books. p. 151. ISBN 9781935251491. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  2. ^ Menefee, Christine C. (March 2004). "Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show", School Library Journal 50 (3): 254.
  3. ^ Bernard A. Drew, Literary Afterlife: The Posthumous Continuations of 325 Authors' Fictional Characters, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7864-4179-2, p. 279.
  4. ^ "SCR » Author Index". Shitcreek.auszine.com. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
  5. ^ "Scriptorium Fonts & Art". fontcraft.com. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  6. ^ "Aces Abroad". Steve Jackson Games. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  7. ^ Murphy, Kevin Andrew (1991). Aces Abroad (GURPS Wild Cards RPG). Steve Jackson Games Incorporated. ISBN 155634211X.

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