Author

Books by Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons is an American author from Peoria, Illinois, who worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. He is best known for his science fiction Hyperion Cantos, which won the Hugo Award in 1990, and for his horror novel The Summer of Night. The Terror (2007) was his most ambitious historical novel and became the basis of a critically acclaimed AMC television series in 2018. He has written across science fiction, horror, and historical fiction and has won multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy Awards.