1. Kim James Newman was born on 31 July 1959 and is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer.
13 Facts About Kim Newman
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Kim Newman is interested in film history and horror fiction - both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven - and alternative history.
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Kim Newman has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the BSFA award.
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Kim Newman was born 31 July 1959 in Brixton, London, the son of Bryan Michael Newman and Julia Christen Newman, both potters.
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Kim Newman's sister, Sasha, was born in 1961, and their mother died in 2003.
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Kim Newman graduated from the University of Sussex with an English degree in 1980 and set a short story, Angel Down, Sussex in the area.
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Kim Newman acted in school plays and with the Bridgwater Youth Theatre.
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Early in his career, Kim Newman was a journalist for the magazines City Limits and Knave.
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Kim Newman contributes to Rotten Tomatoes, Venue, Video Watchdog and Sight and Sound.
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Kim Newman is the author of the Doctor Who entry in the British Film Institute's book series on TV Classics.
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In 2018, Kim Newman became the chief writer on the BBC Four documentary series Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema.
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Kim Newman wrote a Doctor Who novella, Time and Relative in 2001.
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Kim Newman has been nominated for the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award six times and for the World Fantasy Award seven times.