![]() McCammon graduated from Banks High School, intending to be a journalist. Unathletic and with few friends, he also wrote stories in which he was popular and excelled at sports. ![]() McCammon’s childhood stories focused on cowboys, aliens, and fantastical monsters. After his parents divorced, he and his mother lived with his grandparents. He spent his youth in Birmingham’s East Lake Community and began writing around the age of 10. Robert McCammon was born on July 17, 1952, in Birmingham, Jefferson County, the only child of Jack, a musician, and Barbara Bundy McCammon. ![]() In addition to writing novels and short fiction, McCammon founded the Horror Writers Association, a nonprofit organization of professional writers in the horror genre. In 1992, his novel Boy’s Life won the prestigious World Fantasy Award for best novel. Alabama native Robert Rick McCammon (1952- ) is an award-winning and bestselling author whose body of work spans the genres of horror, speculative fiction, and historical fiction. ![]()
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