Robert R. McCammon

Robert Rick McCammon (born July 17, 1952) is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama.

One of the influential names in the late 1970s–early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCammon had three New York Times bestsellers (The Wolf's Hour, Stinger, and Swan Song) and around 5 million books in print.

He received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Alabama in 1974.

McCammon lives in Birmingham.

He has a daughter, Skye, with his former wife, Sally Sanders.

In 1985, McCammon's story "Nightcrawlers" was adapted into an episode of The Twilight Zone (1985).

After years out-of-print, Baal, Bethany's Sin, The Night Boat, and They Thirst were re-released by Subterranean Press as limited edition novels.

McCammon has published multiple award-winning books, including Mine in 1990 and Boy's Life in 1991.

After the release of Gone South, McCammon chose to leave his publisher.

After clashing with an editor at a new publisher over the direction for his historical fiction novel Speaks the Nightbird, he retired from writing.

After a long hiatus which resulted from the reorganization of the publishing industry and McCammon's personal depression and soul searching, he returned to the publishing world with Speaks the Nightbird, the first book in the Matthew Corbett series.

Publishers Weekly called it a "compulsively readable yarn," and said, "McCammon's loyal fans will find his resurfacing reason to rejoice."

Since 2002 he’s written several books in a historical mystery series featuring a 17th-century magistrate’s clerk, Matthew Corbett, as he unravels mysteries in colonial America.

His parents are Jack, a musician, and Barbara Bundy McCammon.

After his parents' divorce, McCammon lived with his grandparents in Birmingham.

Since 2002, fourteen new books have been published, including eight, so far, in the Matthew Corbett series.

In a 2013 interview, McCammon acknowledged that some readers would like to have a complete collection of his work, and said "reading back over those books I find they’re not as poorly written as I recall them to be."