Brian Attebery

Brian Attebery (born December 1951) is an American writer and professor of English at Idaho State University. He is best known for the non-fiction book Strategies of Fantasy, which analyzes fantasy as a genre and won the Mythopoeic Award in 1993. Attebery is also editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, for which he received the World Fantasy Award in 2021. He has also won the IAFA Award for distinguished scholarship, as well as the Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement.

Brian Attebery
BornDecember 1951 (age 70)
United States
OccupationWriter, academic
Notable worksStrategies of Fantasy (1992)
Notable awardsPilgrim Award, World Fantasy Award
TitleProfessor of English
Academic background
Alma materBrown University
Academic work
InstitutionsIdaho State University

Biography

Attebery was born in 1951,[1][2] and received a doctorate in American Civilization from Brown University in 1979.[3] He is professor of English at Idaho State University, and the editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.[1] He is best known for his 1992 book Strategies of Fantasy, in which he analyzes fantasy as a genre. Attebery suggests that fantasy is a "fuzzy set" with no easily discernible boundaries, in contrast to the genre of science fiction.[4] Critic John Clute has praised the book as displaying "very considerable [...] critical acumen".[4]

Recognition

Attebery is the recipient of the 1993 IAFA Award for Distinguished Scholarship, and the 2009 Pilgrim Award for lifetime contribution to SF and fantasy scholarship.[5] He has also won the Mythopoeic Award and World Fantasy Award for individual works of nonfiction, as detailed in the following table.

Year[lower-alpha 1] Work Award Category Result[5]
1993 Strategies of Fantasy Mythopoeic Award Scholarship Won
1994 The Norton Book Of Science Fiction Locus Award Anthology Nominated
2015 Stories About Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth Mythopoeic Award Scholarship Won
2021 Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts World Fantasy Award Non-professional Won

Works
  • The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin (1980)
  • Decoding Gender in Science Fiction (2002)
  • Strategies of Fantasy (1992)
  • The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993) editor with Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Reading Narrative Fiction
  • "Fairest", Strange Horizons.com, September 11, 2006
  • Parabolas of Science Fiction (2013) with Veronica Hollinger

Notes
  1. Year of award ceremony.

References
  1. Clute, John (October 26, 2021). "Attebery, Brian". In Clute, John; et al. (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (3rd ed.). Gollancz.
  2. "Attebery, Brian, 1951-". Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
  3. "Brian Attebery". Idaho State University. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  4. Clute, John (1997). "Attebery, Brian". In Clute, John; Grant, John (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. St. Martin's Griffin.
  5. "Brian Attebery Awards". Science Fiction Awards Database. Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Retrieved December 12, 2021.


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