Matthew Theron Ruff (b. September 8, 1965 in Queens, New York) is an American author of thriller, sci-fi and comic novels.
Ruff grew up in New York City. He attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan; one of his teachers there was the memoirist Frank McCourt. He graduated from Cornell University in 1987.
The author's first novel, Fool on the Hill, was a fantasy that drew on his experiences living in Risley Residential College at Cornell. Publis...
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Matthew Theron Ruff (b. September 8, 1965 in Queens, New York) is an American author of thriller, sci-fi and comic novels.
Ruff grew up in New York City. He attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan; one of his teachers there was the memoirist Frank McCourt. He graduated from Cornell University in 1987.
The author's first novel, Fool on the Hill, was a fantasy that drew on his experiences living in Risley Residential College at Cornell. Published shortly after Ruff graduated from the university, it gained an early cult following which continues to this day. His second book Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy was postcyberpunk; it helped him to become a fully settled writer. He became fairly well known not only in the United States, but also in Europe.
His third book Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls, focuses on multiple personalities; while not technically science-fiction, it nonetheless contains significant speculative elements. The novel was long-listed for...
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