Biography
Ding Kunz is one of the most successful writers working in the genres of science fiction, detective and horrors. In the author's bibliography, dozens of novels, some of which have become the bestsellers of the national level in the United States. Each new job is paid by Kuntsu rather large sum - about $ 1 million.Embed from getty imagesTo date, Dina's works are translated into 38 languages of the world, and their circulation reaches 200 million copies. 7 of the novels of his writings was headed by the rating of bestsellers printed in the New York Times newspaper. The books of this author are the basis for the screening of Hollywood films and serials, and phrases from there are flying out on quotes.
Childhood and youth
Ding Ray Kuntz appeared in the American Pennsylvania state. He was brought up in a poor family, in which the chapter was not once a convicted father-alcoholic named Raymond. The parents of the boy negatively treated the acquisition and reading of fiction, so diligently tuned him against it.
At 8, Kuntz Jr. began to trade his works. He composed stories, then created multicolored covers for them, and after he offered to neighboring families for a minor amount. At the age of 12, he took part in a competition organized by the famous newspaper, during which $ 25 won. This money he received for the essay on the theme of America for me. "
Having received secondary education, Kuntz entered the Schippenburg College, which graduated in 1967. Further, he began his career teacher in English. On the first time, I received information about the fact that the former teacher of the same subject beat schoolchildren, after which it was put in the hospital for a period equal to several weeks.
Embed from getty imagesDespite the teaching career, writing activities remained the main dream of Dean. Being a student at the University of Schippenburg, he began to compose stories and took the 1st place in the competition of the local magazine called "Atlantic Mansley". After that, Kunz firmly decided that he would become a professional writer and would create nights after the main work, as well as on weekends.
After Dean moved to the suburban school of Harrisburg for a similar position, he also continued to work on creating his own works at night. After a year and a half of this graph, the author's wife named Gerd suggested providing him for 5 years for which he had to become a successful writer. After this time, the woman was able to afford to leave the familiar work in a small financial company, since her spouse managed to build a decent career.
Books
The debut story of a novice writer, published in 1967, got the name "killing a look." A year later, the world saw the first full-fledged Roman Kuntz "Mutants", which immediately acquired interest among the audience. Since severely, Dina Kunz will learn all over the world as an unsurpassed master of witty detectives and thrillers holding in a volatile voltage from the first and to the last chapter.Embed from getty imagesThroughout its creative biography, Dean periodically used various pseudonyms, such as Richard Page, Brian Coffi, Lee Nichols, Owen West, Din Dvyer, John Hill, David Arear, Aaron Wolfe, Anthony North.
At the beginning of his literary career, the author composed mainly works in the genre of classical science fiction. In 1970, he released a collection of stories "Quietly marching dragons", which includes not only traditional stories, but also in the style of Horror.
Following the novel "Star Search", written 2 years earlier, Kunz composed more than 20 sci-fi books, in which the elements of the "horror of the subconscious" were present on an ongoing basis. This fact testified that the writer slowly, but surely and inevitably moved to a new genre for him: he began to write about monster children in the "softer" and "damn seed", mutants, robots and cyborgs, which are equipped with a set of infernal syndromes And phobias in "Antichelovka" and "Wereworn among us."
One of the best scientific fiction works of the author was the novel of 1975 by the release of a "nightmarish journey". In it, Kuntz fell into the theme that the land in the distant future would be a radioactive world inhabited by mutants. The catastrophe that occurred on the planet turned it into a sullen "prison" for all mankind, displaced from the stars with an unknown great cosmic mind.
Embed from getty imagesA well-known fact is that in his work Ding Kunz is extremely rewind and is thoroughly aware of the items studied by him. For several decades of writing activity, its private library has replenished more than 50 thousand volumes of specialized literature. The man seriously and thoughtfully studied scientific work on chemistry, biology, sociology of crime, psychiatry, psychopathology, etc.
Releaseing for a 5-year term for another 12 novels in the genre of fantasy, since 1975 Kunz composed for most of her work in the style of Horror and achieved in this direction of tremendous success. The literary critics often compared it in a positive vein with such unsurpassed masters of the horror genre, like Stephen King and Peter Stroke.
Embed from getty imagesFrom this period, Dean practically left science fiction and began to position himself as the creator of "horror literature". And today, he prefers the psychological concept of building the plot than supernatural.
Commercial success and glory came to the writer in the 80s together with the novel of the Roman "Shoroes", which came to the first line in the list of bestsellers according to the newspaper New York Times. After such success, almost all the early works of the author who were published under the pseudonyms were reissued under the real name Din Kuntz and with his photo on the back of the cover. Subsequently, almost every work of the Master began to be mentioned in the lists of the best books.
Peru a talented writer belongs to dozens of entertaining stories that have been translated into other languages and become bestsellers in many countries. The most famous includes such works as "guardian angels", "bad place", "cold fire", "Lair", "midnight", "phantoms".
Embed from getty imagesDespite the appeal to the Gorror genre, the author's later novels come across images and topics inherent in the scientific fiction well familiar to him. Dean Kuntz shared with fans of the secrets of his success in writings on the topic "How to write popular literature" and "How to write Book-Bestsellers."
The overall circulation of the works of the writer passed for 200 million copies. According to the novels, Dina Kuntz was removed several artistic films and TV shows, including the Thriller 1990 of the output of the "face of fear".
Personal life
Ding Kunz is happy in a personal life. Since 1966, it is an official marriage with Herd Anna Serru Kunz. With a woman, the writer met in Schippenburg College. Now they live together in the city of Newport Beach, which is located in Southern California.
Ding Kunz now
In 2019, the writer continues his literary career. A year earlier, his new work called "Curve Staircase" was published.
Bibliography
- 1970 - "Antichell"
- 1971 - "Bagro Witch"
- 1984 - "Twilight"
- 1985 - "Twilight Look"
- 1988 - "Lightning"
- 1999 - "false memory"
- 2000 - "Edge of the Eyes"
- 2007 - "Nice Guy"
- 2008 - "Night of Thomas"
- 2010 - "Lost Souls"
- 2015 - "Ashley Bell"
- 2015 - Saint Odd
- 2017 - The Silent Corner
- 2017 - The Whispering Room
- 2018 - The Crooked Staircase