Background
Jeffrey Ford was born on November 8, 1955, in West Islip, New York, Suffolk County, United States of America.
Jeffrey Ford is a graduate of Binghamton University, where he studied with the novelist John Gardner.
Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford
Ford's portrait by Gerard Wickham.
Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford
(There is a town that brews a strange intoxicant from a ra...)
There is a town that brews a strange intoxicant from a rare fruit called the deathberry - and once a year a handful of citizens are selected to drink it... There is a life lived beneath the water - among rotted buildings and bloated corpses - by those so overburdened by the world's demands that they simply give up and go under... In this mesmerizing blend of the familiar and the fantastic, multiple award-winning New York Times notable author Jeffrey Ford creates true wonders and infuses the mundane with magic.
https://www.amazon.com/Drowned-Life-Jeffrey-Ford-ebook/dp/B001JK9BBY/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of...)
In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who paints wonderful canvases that are never displayed, an older brother who serves as both tormentor and protector, and a younger sister who inhabits her own secret world, the boy takes his amusements where he can find them.
https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Year-Novel-Jeffrey-Ford-ebook/dp/B0014Y09JS/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(A mysterious and richly evocative novel, The Portrait of ...)
A mysterious and richly evocative novel, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque tells the story of portraitist Piero Piambo, who is offered a commission unlike any other. The client is Mrs. Charbuque, a wealthy and elusive woman who asks Piambo to paint her portrait, though with one bizarre twist: he may question her at length on any topic, but he may not, under any circumstances, see her. So begins an astonishing journey into Mrs. Charbuque's world and the world of 1893 New York society in this hypnotically compelling literary thriller.
https://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Mrs-Charbuque-Novel-ebook/dp/B001P2UVAG/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(“Jeffrey Ford is one of the few writers who uses wonder i...)
“Jeffrey Ford is one of the few writers who uses wonder instead of ink in his pen… A rare and wonderful talent.” - Jonathan Carroll, author of The Wooden Sea Eclectic is certainly an adjective that can be used to describe the work of the phenomenal Jeffrey Ford - along with imaginative, provocative, mesmerizing, and brilliant.
https://www.amazon.com/Crackpot-Palace-Stories-Jeffrey-Ford-ebook/dp/B007BC2VQG/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(Emily Dickinson takes a carriage ride with Death. A coupl...)
Emily Dickinson takes a carriage ride with Death. A couple are invited over to a neighbor's daughter's exorcism. A country witch with a sea-captain's head in a glass globe intercedes on behalf of abused and abandoned children.
https://www.amazon.com/Natural-History-Hell-Stories-ebook/dp/B01HLN2IR6/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(All Maggie, Russell, and Henry wanted out of their last c...)
All Maggie, Russell, and Henry wanted out of their last college vacation was to get drunk and play archaeologist in an old house in the woods outside of town. When they excavate the mansion's outhouse they find way more than they bargained for: a sealed bottle filled with a red liquid, along with the bizarre skeleton of a horned child Disturbing the skeleton throws each of their lives into a living hell. They feel followed wherever they go, their homes are ransacked by unknown intruders, and people they care about are brutally, horribly dismembered. The three friends awakened something, a creature that will stop at nothing to retrieve its child.
https://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Pariah-Kindle-Single-ebook/dp/B071KZ1CY5/?tag=2022091-20
2017
(An all-new anthology of eighteen classic myth retellings ...)
An all-new anthology of eighteen classic myth retellings featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers. From Hades and Persephone to Kali, from Loki to Inanna, this anthology explores retellings of myths across cultures and civilizations. Featuring award-winning and critically acclaimed writers such as Seanan McGuire, Naomi Novik, Rebecca Roanhorse, JY Yang, Alyssa Wong, Indrapramit Das, Carlos Hernandez, Sarah Gailey, Ann Leckie, John Chu, Urusla Vernon, Carmen Maria Machado, Stephen Graham Jones, Arkady Martine, Amal El-Mohtar, Jeffrey Ford, and more, The Mythic Dream is sure to become a new classic.
https://www.amazon.com/Mythic-Dream-John-Chu-ebook/dp/B075RTDW5P/?tag=2022091-20
2019
(Author of the fantastic and the bizarre, Jeffrey Ford’s w...)
Author of the fantastic and the bizarre, Jeffrey Ford’s work has won awards and acclaim across the globe for his stories of humor, horror, and unconventional beauty. “Powerful and disturbing in the best possible way” (Gawker) and “Intensely engaging” (Publishers Weekly), Ford crosses speculative genres with literary ideals, which has earned him the World Fantasy Award (seven times), the Shirley Jackson Award (four times), the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and France’s vaunted Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire. Dark Moon Books and editor Eric J. Guignard bring you this introduction to his work, the fourth in a series of primers exploring modern masters of literary dark short fiction.
https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Dark-Short-Fiction-Jeffrey-ebook/dp/B07X5MW4PS/?tag=2022091-20
2019
essayist novelist teacher writer
Jeffrey Ford was born on November 8, 1955, in West Islip, New York, Suffolk County, United States of America.
Jeffrey Ford is a graduate of Binghamton University, where he studied with the novelist John Gardner.
Jeffrey Ford is a fantasy fiction author whose first novel, "Vanitas," is the story of the inventions of the brilliant Scarfinati, who is killed by young Caroline. The dormant contraptions are called up to respond, and the Carnival of the Dead’s mission is to bring back all who have died, including the inventor Scarfinati. A Science Fiction Chronicle reviewer called "Vanitas" a “very strange first novel, full of bizarre images and situations.”
"The "Physiognomy," the winner of the 1998 World Fantasy Award, is the first book of a trilogy. "The protagonist," Physiognomist First Class Cley, is trained in the science that reveals everything about a person, including his or her thoughts, through the body and facial shapes. Cley’s job is to alter aspects of a person by cutting and reshaping their face in accordance with physiognomic principles. Cley himself is addicted to a drug called “sheer beauty,” which produces dreams that cannot be distinguished from reality.
A Publishers Weekly reviewer felt that “despite Ford’s evident, childlike delight in his alter-world, the accouterments of the story aren’t enough to sustain its larger concerns.” Booklist reviewer Ray Olson called "The Physiognomy" “a pedestrianly written yet colorful and fast-paced quest fantasy.” Gerald Jonas wrote in the New York Times Book Review that Ford “writes equally well about the scientific cult of precision and the acceptance of ambiguity.” Some reviewers were of the opinion that although "The Physiognomy" can be read as either science fiction or fantasy, it does not fit into either genre. A Kirkus Reviews writer called "The Physiognomy" “seriously, logically, stunningly surreal: a compact, richly textured, enthralling fantasy debut.”
A Publishers Weekly reviewer wrote that “reading Ford’s descriptions of Below’s bizarre subconscious is like stepping into a Dali painting. Ford’s symbolic view of memory and desire is as intriguing as it is haunting.” The reviewer called Memoranda “a worthy sequel” to "The Physiognomy." Cley enters Below’s memory palace to find the beautiful temptress Anotine floating on an island in a sea of mercury. In reviewing "Memoranda," Jonas wrote that “I once again found myself under the spell of an alternate world marked, like ours, by a maddening tangle of beauty, pity, and terror.” Jonas called the book “a novel of virtual reality like no other.”
Jeffery Ford also teaches writing and literature at Brookdale Community College, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
(Author of the fantastic and the bizarre, Jeffrey Ford’s w...)
2019(All Maggie, Russell, and Henry wanted out of their last c...)
2017(There is a town that brews a strange intoxicant from a ra...)
2008(In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of...)
2009(An all-new anthology of eighteen classic myth retellings ...)
2019(“Jeffrey Ford is one of the few writers who uses wonder i...)
2012(A mysterious and richly evocative novel, The Portrait of ...)
2009(Emily Dickinson takes a carriage ride with Death. A coupl...)
2016