Whitley Strieber
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Author Whitley Strieber and Ann Strieber, lecturing to MUFON
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| Born | Louis Whitley Strieber June 13, 1945 San Antonio, Texas, United States |
| Occupation | Writer/novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1978–present |
| Genre | Social science fiction, Ufology, Horror novels |
| Notable works |
The Wolfen (1978) The Hunger (1981) Communion (1987) |
| Spouse | Anne Strieber |
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Louis Whitley Strieber (/ˈstriːbər/; born June 13, 1945) is an American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion, a non-fiction account of his alleged experiences with non-human entities. He has maintained a dual career of author of fiction and advocate of alternative concepts through his best-selling non-fiction books, his Unknown Country web site, and his Internet podcast, Dreamland.
Strieber was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Kathleen Mary (Drought) and Karl Strieber, a lawyer. He attended Central Catholic Marianist High School in San Antonio, Texas. He was educated at the University of Texas at Austin and the London School of Film Technique, graduating from each in 1968. He then worked for several advertising firms in New York City, rising to the level of vice president before leaving in 1977 to pursue a writing career.
Strieber began his career as a novelist with the horror novels The Wolfen (1978) and The Hunger (1981), each of which were made into feature films, followed by the less successful horror novels Black Magic (1982) and The Night Church (1983).
Strieber then turned to speculative fiction with social conscience. Collaborating with James Kunetka, he wrote Warday (1984), about the dangers of limited nuclear warfare, and Nature's End (1986), a novel about environmental apocalypse. He independently authored Wolf of Shadows (1985), a young adult novel set in the aftermath of a nuclear war.
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