1. Jack Ketchum was the recipient of four Bram Stoker Awards and three further nominations.
13 Facts About Jack Ketchum
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Jack Ketchum's novels included Off Season, Offspring, and Red, the latter two of which were adapted to film.
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In 2011, Ketchum received the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award for outstanding contribution to the horror genre.
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Jack Ketchum was born in Livingston, New Jersey, as the only child to German immigrant parents.
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Jack Ketchum earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, and later taught at the high-school level in Brookline, Massachusetts, for two years.
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Jack Ketchum began making up stories at a young age and explained that he spent much time in his room, or in the woods near his house, down by the brook: '[m]y interests [were] books, comics, movies, rock 'n roll, show tunes, TV, dinosaurs [.
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Jack Ketchum would make up stories using his plastic soldiers, knights, and dinosaurs as the characters.
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Jack Ketchum further expressed an early interest in horror films such as Nosferatu and the classic Universal Monsters such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera.
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Later, in his teen years, Jack Ketchum was befriended by Robert Bloch, author of Psycho, who became his mentor.
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Ketchum's parents were the owners of a luncheonette and soda fountain where Jack worked to support his writing, as a short-order cook during the day and a soda jerk after dark.
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Jack Ketchum worked many different jobs before completing his first novel, including acting as agent for novelist Henry Miller at Scott Meredith Literary Agency, a pivotal point in his career; his encounter with Miller at his home in the Pacific Palisades is one of the subjects of his memoir in Book of Souls.
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Jack Ketchum was resurrected in the tale "Sheep Meadow Story" that formed part of the book Triage, a collection with Richard Laymon and Edward Lee.
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Jack Ketchum died of cancer on January 24,2018, in New York City at the age of 71.