Background
Kenneth Milton Grimwood was born on February 27, 1944, in Dothan, Alabama.
190 Woodward Dr, Pelham, AL 35124, United States
In 1961, Grimwood graduated from Indian Springs School, a private school near Birmingham, Alabama.
15-21 Rue de l'École de Médecine, 75006 Paris, France
In Paris, Grimwood studied at the Sorbonne.
201 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States
From 1961 to 1963, Grimwood attended Emory College in Atlanta.
190 Woodward Dr, Pelham, AL 35124, United States
In 1961, Grimwood graduated from Indian Springs School, a private school near Birmingham, Alabama.
201 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States
From 1961 to 1963, Grimwood attended Emory College in Atlanta.
15-21 Rue de l'École de Médecine, 75006 Paris, France
In Paris, Grimwood studied at the Sorbonne.
(In his novel, Breakthrough, the central character, Elizab...)
In his novel, Breakthrough, the central character, Elizabeth Austin, seeks relief from a lifelong affliction of epileptic seizures through experimental brain surgery. This surgery implants electrodes into her brain that are activated by a transistor button.
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1976
(The novel, Elise, confronts the issue of immortality and ...)
The novel, Elise, confronts the issue of immortality and eternal youth. Beginning in 1687, the plot follows the main character, originally named Christina, who, once she discovers that she will never grow old, spends her life coming to terms with her fate. However, after 300 years, she grows tired of the routine and seeks to make her current husband immortal. The results are disastrous and cause both the character and the reader to seriously question the desirability of agelessness.
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1977
(In The Voice Outside, Grimwood’s third book, two journali...)
In The Voice Outside, Grimwood’s third book, two journalists race across the United States as they try to battle international espionage and mind-controlling telepathy drugs.
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1982
(Jeff Winston's life is not how he imagined it would be. A...)
Jeff Winston's life is not how he imagined it would be. An unhappy marriage and unrewarding job - and then he died. Aged forty-three. And woke up again, back in his college room, in 1963, aged eighteen. With all his memories intact. If he applies those memories, he can be rich - he can have anything he wants - in this new chance at life.
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1986
(Grimwood’s fifth novel Into the Deep picks up the theme o...)
Grimwood’s fifth novel Into the Deep picks up the theme of telepathy. In this book, three children use telepathy to communicate with dolphins. Thirty years later, these children are now adults and receive another telepathic message. They are asked to join together to communicate with the dolphins, once again, to save the world from imminent environmental destruction. These same adults discover that their encounter with the dolphins during their child¬hood was not a chance encounter. Rather, they were chosen to be “links” between humanity and the dolphin world. The links grow and, ultimately, joins them with a universal telepathic connection that eventually saves the environment.
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1995
Kenneth Milton Grimwood was born on February 27, 1944, in Dothan, Alabama.
In 1961, Grimwood graduated from Indian Springs School, a private school near Birmingham, Alabama. That summer he went to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. From 1961 to 1963, he attended Emory College (now Emory University) in Atlanta. He also studied psychology at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where he contributed short fiction to Bard's student publication, Observer in 1969, graduating in 1970.
In the mid-1960s, Grimwood worked in news at WLAK in Lakeland, Florida. Some of his early novels were written while he was nightside editor at KFWB News 980 radio in Los Angeles, but the success of Replay enabled him to leave KFWB News 980 for full-time writing.
Towards the end of his life, Grimwood maintained a brief email correspondence with Hellboy screenwriter Peter Briggs, whom he contacted after seeing Briggs' review of Replay on the book's Amazon feedback page, revealed in an interview with Briggs in 2004.
(In The Voice Outside, Grimwood’s third book, two journali...)
1982(In his novel, Breakthrough, the central character, Elizab...)
1976(The novel, Elise, confronts the issue of immortality and ...)
1977(Grimwood’s fifth novel Into the Deep picks up the theme o...)
1995(Jeff Winston's life is not how he imagined it would be. A...)
1986In each of his novels, Ken Grimwood explores one or more of three central themes: time travel, immortality, and telepathy.
Ken was a loner, almost a recluse. He liked small gatherings of friends. He had many dinner parties with him and some friends, and he would always be the one to keep the evening hilarious; he was a great storyteller. He did not like publicity and was actually quite shy. He was a media junkie. He owned the first Betamax sold; he had the largest video library.
Ken's sister, Teresa Panther-Yates, once described him as "a brilliant, beautiful human being who knew that the best of fiction has a message." Among his friends was Tom Atwill.
Quotes from others about the person
"Ken Grimwood writes with an easy familiarity of the culture and history of the period, giving the credibility that a more careless writer might not have." - Judith Chettle, a reviewer for the Washington Post Book World
Grimwood was married but had no children.
