Joe R. Lansdale

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joe R. Lansdale
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Oct 28, 1951(1951-10-28)
Age	73
Country	United States
Birth City	Texas
Horoscope	Libra

Joe R. Lansdale Biography

Joe R. Lansdale is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on October 28, 1951 in Texas, United States. A popular American writer, he released thirty-four novel and twenty-five short story collections within the Western and science fiction, horror, and the mystery genres. He is most well-known in the Hap and Leonard series.

The novel he wrote includes a fictionalized version He wrote a novel that features a fictionalized version of Elvis Presley..

He was also nominated nine other times. The Drive-In and Savage Season were nominated in the “Novels” category in 1988 and 1990, respectively. By Bizarre Hands and Writer of the Purple Rage were nominated for “Fiction Collection” in 1989 and 1994. The short story Love Doll: A Fable was nominated in “Short Fiction” in 1991. The novella Bubba Ho-Tep was nominated for “Long Fiction” in

1994. Something Lumber This Way Comes was nominated in a new “Work for Younger Readers” category, and Jonah Hex: Shadows West #1 was nominated for “Illustrated Narrative”, both in 1999. Red Romance (published in DC Comics’ Flinch #11) was nominated for “Illustrated Narrative” in 2000.

Joe Lansdale has won ten Bram Stoker Awards over the course of his long career. The short story Night They Missed the Horror Show won the award for “Short Fiction” in 1988. In the “Long Fiction” category (which is for novellas, though it also initially included comic book work as well), he won in 1989 for On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks, 1997 for The Big Blow, and 1999 for Mad Dog Summer (a shared award with Brian A. Hopkins’ “Five Days in April”). In 1992 the story The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance shared the “Long Fiction” award with Aliens: Tribes by Steve Bissette. In 1993, Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo won in the newly created “Other Media” category. Lansdale’s 2006 anthology Retro Pulp Tales tied for the Best Anthology category with Mondo Zombie edited by John Skipp. He just won his tenth Bram Stoker in the long fiction category for Fishing for Dinosaurs which was published in the collection Limbus 2.

He resided throughout Texas along with his spouse Karen teaching in the department of Stephen F. Austin State University.

Joe R. Lansdale Net Worth

Joe R. Lansdale is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joe R. Lansdale 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was an instructor in martial arts and was admitted into the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame.

He is involved in his Splatterpunk as well as the Cowpunk movement in literature.

Joseph Richard Lansdale (born October 28, 1951) is an American writer and martial arts instructor.

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On October 19, 2012 he was inducted into The Texas Literary Hall of Fame.

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Joe Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Joe R. Lansdale celebrates birthday on October 28 of every year.

Backup Media and Memento Films International financed Cold in July, an adaptation of Lansdale’s cult novel was directed by Jim Mickle, with acting by Michael C. Hall and Sam Shepard. Filming began in 2013. Accompanied by a movie tie-in edition of the original story released by Tachyon Publications, the film was screened at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.