Connie Willis
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Connie Willis at Clarion West, 1998
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| Born | Constance Elaine Trimmer December 31, 1945 Denver, Colorado, US |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.A., 1967 |
| Alma mater | Colorado State College |
| Period | c. 1978–present |
| Genre | Science fiction, social satire, comedy of manners, comic science fiction |
| Subject | Time travel; War, especially World War II; Heroism; Courtship; Mores |
| Literary movement | Savage Humanism |
| Notable works | Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Blackout/All Clear, "The Last of the Winnebagos" |
| Notable awards | Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and others |
| Spouse | Courtney Willis |
| Children | Cordelia Willis |
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Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born December 31, 1945), commonly known as Connie Willis, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. She has won eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards for particular works—more major awards than any other writer—most recently the year's "Best Novel" Hugo and Nebula Awards for Blackout/All Clear (2010). She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Science Fiction Writers of America named her its 28th SFWA Grand Master in 2011.
Several of her works feature time travel by history students at a faculty of the future University of Oxford—sometimes called the Time Travel series. They are the short story "Fire Watch" (1982, also in several anthologies and the 1985 collection of the same name), the novels Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog (1992 and 1998), as well as the two-part novel Blackout/All Clear (2010). All four won the annual Hugo Award and all but To Say Nothing of the Dog won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
Willis is a 1967 graduate of Colorado State College, now the University of Northern Colorado, where she completed degrees in English and Elementary Education. She lives in Greeley, Colorado, with her husband Courtney Willis, a former professor of physics at the University of Northern Colorado. They have one daughter, Cordelia.
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