Andrew J. Offutt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Andrew J. Offutt

Author, editor

Date of Birth: 16-Aug-1934

Place of Birth: Taylorsville, Kentucky, United States

Date of Death: 30-Apr-2013

Profession: writer, novelist, science fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Andrew Jefferson Offutt (August 16, 1934 – April 30, 2013) was an American science fiction and fantasy author.
He wrote as Andrew J.
Offutt, A.
J.
Offutt, and Andy Offutt.
His normal byline, andrew j.
offutt, has all his name in lower-case letters.
He also wrote erotica under seventeen different pseudonyms, principally John Cleve, John Denis, Jeff Morehead, and Turk Winter.
He is the father of novelist Chris Offutt and professor Jeff Offutt. The Sword of Skelos (1979), one of Offutt's contributions to the Conan The Barbarian saga, included a short, facetious biographical note: "Andrew J.
Offutt is the recently 'tired and re-tired', as he puts it, president of the Science Fiction Writers of America.
He loves heroic fantasy though at 6' 1" he is built for speed, not combat.
Kentuckian Offutt has a number of other books in and out of print, and has been a helpless fan of Robert E.
Howard since birth.
Now he calls himself the Steve Garvey among writers; 'Surely it's every boy's dream to grow up—but not too much—and get to write about Conan".
Offutt researches with gusto, both in and out of books, having—briefly and painfully, he says—worn chainmail and helm and wielded sword.
He is also tired of aged, bald, ugly, sexless mages and squeaky females in heroic fantasy".'