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About Me

John Anthony Bellairs (1938-1991) is the award-winning, best-selling author of fifteen acclaimed gothic mystery novels in the Lewis Barnavelt, Anthony Monday, and Johnny Dixon series. He also is the author of St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies, The Pedant and the Shuffly, and the much-respected fantasy The Face in the Frost. Bellairs was born in Marshall, Michigan, earned degrees from Notre Dame and the University of Chicago, taught English at various midwestern and New England colleges and later lived and wrote in Haverhill, Massachusetts. His characters live on in the continued works by author Brad Strickland.

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The Sign of the Sinister Sorcerer

Author Brad Strickland has announced via his website the twelfth title in the Lewis Barnavelt series. The Sign of the Sinister Sorcerer is to be published by Dial Books for Young Readers in 2008....
Posted by bellairsia on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:07:00 PST

Researching the Phoenix

We are interested in learning more about John Bellairs's contributions to the Phoenix, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based weekly newspaper. It's a long shot, we know, being almost 40 years after the fac...
Posted by bellairsia on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:13:00 PST

The House Where Nobody Lived

John Bellairs's timid, chubby hero, Lewis Barnavelt first introduced in 1973's The House with a Clock in its Walls returns to print this October thanks to author Brad Strickland.  The House Where...
Posted by bellairsia on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:02:00 PST