Paul Barnett/John Grant

The official website of the award-winning writer and editor, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, but now resident in New Jersey, USA.

He uses his real name, Paul Barnett, for his editorial work; he has written most of his sixty or so books under the nom de plume John Grant.

John Grant

Of those sixty or so books, about twenty-five are fiction. They include The Far-Enough Window, The Hundredfold Problem, Albion, The World, Qinmeartha and the Girl-Child LoChi (published as half of a "double" with Colin Wilson's The Tomb of the Old Ones), two collaborative parodies with David Langford (Earthdoom and Guts) and the twelve novels of the Legends of Lone Wolf series. Under his real name he has written the two (so far) space operas Strider's Galaxy and Strider's Universe. His illustrated fiction Dragonhenge, done with Bob Eggleton, was nominated for a Hugo in 2003; its successor, The Stardragons, appeared in 2005. His serial novel The Dragons of Manhattan was published online during the latter part of 2003 by the global journalism website Blue Ear.

His best known works of nonfiction are The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters (three editions), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (done with John Clute) and most recently The Chesley Awards for Science Fiction and Fantasy Art: A Retrospective (done with Elizabeth Humphrey and Pamela D. Scoville).

As John Grant he has received two Hugo Awards, the World Fantasy Award, the Mythopoeic Society Scholarship Award, the J. Lloyd Eaton Scholarship Award and a rare British Science Fiction Association Special Award.

Paul Barnett

Under his real name he worked as editor and editorial director for a number of UK publishers until 1980, when he went freelance. In 1996 he was lured back into the mainstream by Paper Tiger, the world's leading publisher of fantasy/sf art books, for which he was Commissioning Editor on a full-time freelance basis until resigning in 2003. He is currently a part-time Consultant Editor for AAPPL (Artists' and Photographers' Press Ltd) and for BeWrite, as well as US Reviews Editor for Infinity Plus, but mainly he's concentrating on his own editing and writing. He has lost count of the number of books he's edited, but knows it's well over a thousand and possibly two or three times that. Similarly, he has lost count of the number of books he's ghostwritten/rewritten, but estimates it must be about twenty or thirty.

As Paul Barnett he has received the Chesley Award and been shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award, in both instances for his editorial work with Paper Tiger.

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