Thomas Ligotti

Quick Facts

Full Name	Thomas Ligotti
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Jul 9, 1953(1953-07-09)
Age	71
Birthplace	Detroit
Country	United States
Birth City	Michigan
Horoscope	Cancer

Thomas Ligotti Biography

Thomas Ligotti is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on July 9, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

Ligotti attended Macomb County Community College between 1971 and 1973 and graduated from Wayne State University in 1978. For 23 years Ligotti worked as an Associate Editor at Gale Research (now the Gale Group), a publishing company that produces compilations of literary (and other) research. In the summer of 2001, Ligotti quit his job at the Gale Group and moved to south Florida. He politically identifies as socialist.

Ligotti started his career as a published writer in the early 1980s with a number of short stories published in various American small press magazines. He was contributing editor to Grimoire from 1982 to 1985. In 2015, Ligotti’s first two collections, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe: His Lives and Works, were republished in one volume by Penguin Classics as Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe. Michael Calia of The Wall Street Journal wrote of the reprint that “Horror writer Thomas Ligotti is about to enter the American literary canon. Penguin Classics published a volume of Mr. Ligotti’s short stories, making him one of 10 living writers, including Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo, among the hundreds the imprint has published in the U.S.” Ligotti’s work received high praise following the publication from the likes of The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker. Terrence Rafferty contrasts Ligotti with Stephen King, observing, “King, the great entertainer, needs the story as the comedian needs the joke, and when he can’t quite deliver it he dies (in the comedian’s sense). King is a master of horror, though. When inspiration fails, he has the technique to fake it. Thomas Ligotti is a master of a different order, practically a different species. He probably couldn’t fake it if he tried, and he never tries. He writes like horror incarnate.”

Thomas Ligotti Net Worth

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

Thomas Ligotti (born July 9, 1953) is a contemporary American horror writer. His writings have been noted as being rooted in several literary genres – most prominently weird fiction – and have overall been described by many critics as works of philosophical horror, often formed into short stories and novellas in the tradition of gothic fiction. The worldview espoused by Ligotti in his fiction and non-fiction is pessimistic and nihilistic. The Washington Post called him “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction.”

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In July 2015 Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti, edited by Matt Cardin, was announced as one of the nominees for that year’s World Fantasy Awards.

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Timothy Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Thomas Ligotti celebrates birthday on July 9 of every year.

Is Thomas ligotti a nihilist?

The worldview espoused by Ligotti in his fiction and non-fiction is pessimistic and nihilistic.

Is Thomas ligotti a pessimist?

Ligotti’s is not a vindictive position, but a mostly rational and intellectual one; as a pessimist his ‘primary concern is eliminating suffering’, rather than further entrenching it.

How old is Thomas ligotti?

68 years (July 9, 1953)

What is considered weird fiction?

Weird fiction is a subgenre of fiction that utilizes aspects of fantasy, horror, and supernatural fiction, while often featuring nontraditional alien monsters. Well-known weird fiction authors include H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, and M.R. James, while Edgar Allan Poe is often considered a pioneer.

What is slipstream writing?

Slipstream is a kind of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries between science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. The term was coined by Richard Dorsett according to an interview with renowned cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in Mythaxis Review.