{"name": "Richard Garfinkle", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Richard Garfinkle grew up in New York and now lives in Chicago with his wife and children. His first novel, ***Celestial Matters***, won the Compton Crook award for best first science fiction novel of 1996. Garfinkle was twice a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer. He has written numerous fiction and nonfiction works on his interests of history, science, imagination, and the preternatural."}, "links": [{"title": "Richard Garfinkle - Website", "url": "https://www.richardgarfinkle.com/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Richard Garfinkle - Smashwords.com", "url": "https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/RichardGarfinkle", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "personal_name": "Richard Garfinkle", "birth_date": "1961", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"viaf": "16479480", "wikidata": "Q7325867", "isni": "0000000035024337", "goodreads": "596797", "imdb": "nm3064776", "lc_naf": "n95095856", "amazon": "B001HPZ7Z0", "storygraph": "9b9c98d0-fec6-4ce0-9f8c-bc233c87872b"}, "key": "/authors/OL26874A", "photos": [15227850], "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-06-06T17:03:12.585687"}}