Jack L. Chalker was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 17,
1944. While still in high school, he began writing for the amateur
science fiction press, and in 1960 he launched the Hugo-nominated
amateur magazine Mirage. A year later he founded Mirage Press,
which grew into a major specialty publisher of nonfiction and
reference books on science fiction and fantasy.
His first novel, A Jungle of Stars, was published in 1976, and he
became a full-time novelist two years later with the major popular
success of Midnight at the Well of Souls. Chalker is an active
conservationist and enjoys traveling, consumer electronics, and
computers. He is also a noted speaker on science fiction and
fantasy at numerous colleges and universities. He is a passionate
lover of steamboats, in particular ferryboats, and has ridden more
than three hundred ferries in the United States and elsewhere.
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