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Michael Blumlein

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 2

TMDB ID: 3688489

IMDb ID: nm1691006

Known for: Writing

Born: June 28, 1948

Died: October 24, 2019

Age: 71

Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1988 - 2004

Years active: 17

Wikidata: Q1927005

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Biography

Michael Blumlein, M.D. was an American fiction writer and a physician. Blumlein attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco and worked as a practicing doctor and member of the faculty at University of California, San Francisco for decades. Most of his writing is in or near the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His novels include The Healer, The Movement of Mountains, and X, Y. He was nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award. His short stories have been collected in anthologies and published in Interzone and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, among others.

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