John Crowley (born December 1, 1942) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer. He is best known as the author of Little, Big (1981), which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and has been called "a neglected masterpiece" by Harold Bloom and his Aegypt series of novels which revolve around the same themes of Hermeticism, memory, families and religion.
Famous quotes containing the words john and/or crowley:
“Marvin, what do we do now?”
—Jeremy Larner, U.S. screenwriter. John McKay (Robert Redford)
“I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.”
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)