Rocky Wood
| Rocky Wood | |
|---|---|
| Born |
19 October 1959 Wellington, New Zealand |
| Died | 1 December 2014 (aged 55) Melbourne, Australia |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | New Zealander / Australian |
| Genre | Non-fiction, Horror |
| Subject |
Stephen King UFOs |
| Website | |
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Rocky Wood (19 October 1959 – 1 December 2014) was an award-winning New Zealand-born Australian writer and researcher best known for his books about horror author Stephen King. He is the first author from outside North America or Europe to hold the position of President of the Horror Writers Association. Wood was born in Wellington, New Zealand and lived in Melbourne, Australia with his family. He has been a freelance writer for over 35 years. His writing career began at university, where he wrote a national newspaper column in New Zealand on extra-terrestrial life and UFO-related phenomena and published other articles about the phenomenon worldwide, in the course of which research he met such figures as Erich von Däniken and J. Allen Hynek; and had articles on the security industry published in the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand and South Africa. In October 2010, Wood was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). He died of complications on 1 December 2014.
In the Stephen King and horror communities, Wood was regarded as a leading expert on Stephen King's work. He is the co-author of The Complete Guide to the Works of Stephen King (Kanrock Partners, 2003, 2004);Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006);The Stephen King Collector's Guide (Kanrock Partners, 2007); Stephen King: The Non-Fiction (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2009) and the author of Stephen King: A Literary Companion (McFarland, 2011). In 2012 the Overlook Connection Press issued a fourth edition of Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished, extensively revised and with direct input from Stephen King, resolving many previous mysteries.
He assisted King with research for the sequel to The Shining, Doctor Sleep. King had this to say in the Author's Note to Doctor Sleep: "Rocky Wood was my go-to guy for all things Shining, providing me with names and dates I had either forgotten or plain got wrong. He also provided reams of info on every recreational vehicle and camper under the sun (the coolest was Rose's EarthCruiser). The Rock knows my work better than I do myself. Look him up on the web sometime. He's got it going on."
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