Chris Claremont (born November 30, 1950, in London, England) is an award-winning American comic book writer and novelist, known for his 17-year (1975-1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, far longer than any other writer. Claremont co-created numerous important X-Men characters, and scripted many classic stories, including "The Dark Phoenix Saga" and "Days of Future Past."
Claremont was a "soft-sciences" major at Bard College, where he graduated in 1972....
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Chris Claremont (born November 30, 1950, in London, England) is an award-winning American comic book writer and novelist, known for his 17-year (1975-1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, far longer than any other writer. Claremont co-created numerous important X-Men characters, and scripted many classic stories, including "The Dark Phoenix Saga" and "Days of Future Past."
Claremont was a "soft-sciences" major at Bard College, where he graduated in 1972. Claremont has since been awarded the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard, "given in recognition of a significant contribution to the American artistic or literary heritage."
Claremont's career began in 1969, as a college undergraduate, when he was a gofer in the Marvel Comics offices. In 1974, as an entry into comics writing, Claremont was given the fledgling title Iron Fist that also teamed him with John Byrne for the second time. (Their first collaboration was in Marvel Premiere, where Byrne had drawn Iron Fist's...
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