Robert R. McCammon

Robert Rick McCammon (born July 17, 1952) is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama, where he still lives. He was a leading name in the late 1970s to early 1990s American horror boom, with novels including Swan Song, Stinger, Mine and The Wolf's Hour, and by 1991 had three New York Times bestsellers and around 5 million books in print.

Boy's Life (1991) won the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award, and he received the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. Since Speaks the Nightbird (2002) he has written the Matthew Corbett historical mystery series, and he also writes the Trevor Lawson supernatural thrillers.