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American writer

John Bellairs
Born	John Anthony Bellairs (1938-01-17)January 17, 1938 Marshall, Michigan, U.S.
Died	March viii, 1991(1991-03-08) (anile 53) Haverhill, Massachusetts, US
Occupation	Novelist
Pedagogy	University of Notre Dame (BA) University of Chicago (MA)
Menstruum	1966–1991
Genre	Fantasy, horror, humour
Notable works	The House with a Clock in Its Walls, The Face in the Frost

John Anthony Bellairs (January 17, 1938 – March 8, 1991)^[one] was an American author best known for his fantasy novel The Face in the Frost and many Gothic mystery novels for children featuring the characters Lewis Barnavelt, Rose Rita Pottinger, Johnny Dixon, and Anthony Monday. Most of his books were illustrated by Edward Gorey.^[2] Thirteen unfinished and original sequels to Bellairs' books have been written by Brad Strickland.^[three] At the fourth dimension of his death, Bellairs' books had sold a quarter-million copies in difficult cover and more than a meg and a half copies in paperback.^[4]

Biography [edit]

Front view of the Cronin House in Marshall, Michigan, which inspired The Firm with a Clock in Its Walls

Early life and didactics [edit]

Bellairs was born in Marshall, Michigan, the son of Virginia (Monk) and Frank Edward Bellairs, a saloonkeeper.^[5] His hometown inspired the fictional town of New Zebedee, where he ready his trilogy most Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger.^[six] Shy, overweight, and often bullied as a kid, he became a voracious reader and a self-described "bottomless pit of useless information" past the fourth dimension he graduated from Marshall High School^[7] and entered the Academy of Notre Dame in 1955. He competed in the College Bowl and wrote a regular humor column for the student magazine Scholastic.^[8]

Bellairs received a Bachelor of Arts caste in English language magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 1959^[9] and a Chief of Arts degree in English from the Academy of Chicago in 1960. He received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1959.^[ten]

Career and interests [edit]

Bellairs taught English at the College of Saint Teresa (1963–65), Shimer College (1966–67), Emmanuel College (1968–69), and Merrimack College (1969–71) earlier turning full-time to writing in 1971. In the late 1960s, he spent six months living and writing in Bristol, UK, where he began writing The Face in the Frost. Bristol would later feature in his novel The Surreptitious of the Underground Room. His personal interests included archæology, architecture, history, Latin, baseball, kitschy antiques, bad poetry, visits to the Britain, and trivia of all kinds.^[1] His favorite authors included Charles Dickens, Henry James, Chiliad.R. James, Garrett Mattingly, and C.V. Wedgwood.^[iii]

Aslope Christopher Tolkien, Bellairs was a guest of honor at the 18th Annual Mythopoeic Conference at Marquette Academy in 1987, hosted past the Mythopoeic Society.^[xi]

Death and legacy [edit]

Bellairs died suddenly of cardiovascular illness at his home in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1991. He was 53 years old. He was survived by his wife, Priscilla (Braids) Bellairs, whom he had married on June 24, 1968, and their son Frank J. Bellairs.^[ane] Frank Bellairs died in 1999 at the age of 29. Priscilla Bellairs is alive and lives in Newburyport.^[12]

In 1992, a historical marking was placed in forepart of the historic Cronin Business firm in Bellairs's hometown of Marshall, Michigan.^[13] Congenital in 1870 for local merchant Jeremiah Cronin, this imposing Italianate mansion with its 60-foot belfry had inspired the titular house of his 1973 book.^[7]

Bellairs was inducted into the Haverhill Citizens Hall of Fame in 2000.^[three]

Writings [edit]

Books for adults [edit]

Bellairs' first published piece of work, St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies (1966), is a collection of short stories satirizing the rites and rituals of Second Vatican Council-era Catholicism. The championship story of St. Fidgeta grew out of humorous stories Bellairs fabricated up and shared with friends while living in Chicago. After committing one such story to newspaper, he sent it to the Chicago-based Catholic magazine The Critic, which published the story in summer 1965. The following year, the hagiography of St. Fidgeta was supplemented by eleven other humorous stories, including an essay on lesser-known popes of antiquity, a cathedral constructed over the course of centuries, and a spoof letter from a modern-mean solar day Xavier Rynne near the escapades at the fictional Third Vatican Quango. Library Periodical hailed St. Fidgeta as "religious burlesque" that delivered "strokes of inspired foolishness." A writer for the National Catholic Reporter chosen information technology a "gem."^[14]

The Pedant and the Shuffly, his second book, is a curt illustrated fable featuring the evil magician Snodrog (the titular pedant), who ensnares his victims with inescapable (and nonsensical) logic until the kindly sorcerer, Sir Bertram Crabtree-Gore, enlists the help of a magical Shuffly to defeat Snodrog. The volume was originally published in 1968 and rereleased in 2001^[xv] and 2009.^[16]

Bellairs undertook his 3rd volume, The Face up in the Frost (1969), while living in Britain and after reading J.R.R. Tolkien'south The Lord of the Rings. Bellairs said of his third volume:

"The Face up in the Frost was an attempt to write in the Tolkien manner. I was much taken by The Lord of the Rings and wanted to do a modest work on those lines. In reading the latter book I was struck by the fact that Gandalf was not much of a person—simply a good guy. So I gave Prospero, my wizard, most of my phobias and crotchets. It was simply meant as entertainment and whatever profundity volition take to be read in."^[17]

Writing in 1973, Lin Carter described The Face in the Frost equally 1 of the three best fantasy novels to appear since The Lord of the Rings. Carter stated that Bellairs was planning a sequel to The Face in the Frost at the fourth dimension.^[18] An unfinished sequel titled The Dolphin Cross was included in the anthology Magic Mirrors (New England Science Fiction Association Press, 2009).^[16]

Books for children [edit]

Bellairs's next novel, The House with a Clock in Its Walls (1973), was originally written every bit a contemporary adult fantasy. To improve the novel'due south marketability, his publisher suggested rewriting it every bit a young readers' book. The upshot was The House with a Clock in Its Walls, which was named as one of The New York Times Outstanding Books of 1973 and nominated for other awards.^[19]

Following the success of The House with a Clock in Its Walls, Bellairs focused on writing Gothic fantasy adventures aimed at elementary and middle-school children.^[20] "I write scary thrillers for kids because I have the imagination of a 10-year-quondam," remarked Bellairs. "I love haunted houses, ghosts, witches, mummies, incantations, surreptitious rituals performed by the light of the waning moon, coffins, bones, cemeteries and enchanted objects."^[4] Bellairs also wrote his hometown influenced his artistic bent: "In my imagination I repeatedly walk up and downwardly the streets of the beautiful old Michigan town where I grew up. It's full of old Victorian mansions and history, and it would work on the artistic mind of whatever child."^[7]

Writing for The New York Times, Marilyn Stasio characterized Bellairs' children'south books as fast-paced, spooky adventures involving "believable and likeable" characters, by and large a child and an older person (commonly a "lovable eccentric")^[21] who are friends and must continue adventures and solve a mystery involving supernatural elements such equally ghosts and wicked sorcerers. Beyond these supernatural elements, Bellairs's novels evoked "a kid's concern with comfort and security in his existent globe," addressing childhood fears of abandonment, loneliness, and bullying, likewise every bit coming of age.^[4] His stories are described as spooky just ultimately reassuring as the characters conquer evil through friendship.^[21]

The books have proved especially popular among middle-grade readers between the ages of nine and 13 but also have significant immature adult and developed readerships.^[iv]

Posthumous sequels [edit]

On his death in 1991, Bellairs left behind two unfinished manuscripts and two one-page synopses for future adventures. The Bellairs estate commissioned Brad Strickland to complete the 2 unfinished manuscripts and to write novels based on the 2 one-page outlines. These became The Ghost in the Mirror; The Vengeance of the Witch-finder; The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie; and The Doom of the Haunted Opera, respectively. Starting in 1996 with The Hand of the Necromancer, Strickland began writing his own stories based on the established characters.^[3]

Strickland announced in leap 2005 that new adventures of the Bellairs characters were nether way, following contract negotiations with the Bellairs estate and a ii-twelvemonth absence since his last-published novel. The starting time of these new adventures was The House Where Nobody Lived, which was published on October v, 2006.^[iii]

Critical analysis [edit]

Disquisitional attention has focused on The Business firm With the Clock in Its Walls every bit exemplar of Bellairs' literary merit and style. Critics argued that Bellairs wrestled with notions of masculinity, femininity, and queerness in his works.^{[xix] [22] [23]} One scholar contended that Bellairs' Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger trilogy traced the "emerging acceptance of self" past the two main characters, who struggled with internalized gender norms.^[24] One of the virtually substantial bookish treatments of Bellairs comes from Dawn Heinecken, professor of women's and gender studies at the University of Louisville. Heinecken situates Bellairs in 1970s-era anxieties about gender and changing discourses effectually masculinity, which were reflected in the era's children's literature.^[19]

Conservative critic William Kilpatrick observed of Bellairs that "While his books are quite frightening, they are well written and undergirded by a moral vision" and recommended them to parents who wish to expose their children to age-appropriate literature that both entertains and edifies.^[25] Randi Dickson suggested that Bellairs' oeuvre evidenced greater literary merit than the works of R. L. Stine, whose horror fiction appeals to a youthful demographic similar to Bellairs'.^[26] Educators take used The House With the Clock in Its Walls as a case written report for using storytelling techniques to describe in reluctant readers^[27] or assigning The Curse of the Blue Figurine to students in a book social club.^[28] I critic noted that Bellairs relied on tropes of magical realism.^[29]

Bellairs' books take been translated into Czech, French, German, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish, among other languages.

Illustrators [edit]

Edward Gorey provided cover illustrations and frontispieces for all but three of Bellairs'southward fifteen children's novels and connected to illustrate the Strickland novels until Gorey's decease in 2000. The novel The Animal Nether the Wizard's Bridge featured Gorey's last published artwork before his expiry.^[xxx] Despite the stiff association of the novels with Gorey'southward illustrations, Bellairs and Gorey never met and probably never even corresponded.^[two] The Gorey covers are no longer in print, though some newer editions of the novels all the same contain interior Gorey illustrations.

S. D. Schindler and Bart Goldman accept created cover art for the Strickland books published since 2001.

Marilyn Fitschen provided the covers and illustrations for Bellairs' first three books: St Fidgeta and Other Parodies, The Pedant and the Shuffly, and The Confront in the Frost.

Awards [edit]

#	Book Title	Award	Year
01	The House with a Clock in Its Walls	American Library Association Children's Books of International Interest Award	1973
02	The House with a Clock in Its Walls	New York Times Outstanding Books of 1973 Award	1973
03	The Firm with a Clock in Its Walls	S Carolina Children'south Book Honour Nominee	1978–1979
04	The House with a Clock in Its Walls	Michigan Young Readers Honour Nominee	1980
05	The House with a Clock in Its Walls	Maude Hart Lovelace Accolade Nominee (Minnesota)	1982
06	The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring	Southward Carolina Children's Volume Award Nominee	1979–1980
07	The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring	Utah Children'south Fiction Book Award	1981
08	The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn	Maud Hart Lovelace Laurels Nominee (Minnesota)	1983
09	The Curse of the Blue Figurine	Utah Children's Fiction Book Honour Nominee	1985
10	The Curse of the Blueish Figurine	Indian Paintbrush Book Honor Nominee (Wyoming)	1986
11	The Expletive of the Blueish Figurine	Virginia Young Readers Honour, Middle School Partition	1986–1987
12	The Curse of the Blue Figurine	Read-Aloud Books As well Skillful to Miss Listing (Indiana Library Federation)	1990–1991
thirteen	The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt	Iowa Teen Honor Nominee	1985–1986
14	The Dark Underground of Weatherend	Utah Children's Fiction Volume Honor Nominee	1987
15	The Eyes of the Killer Robot	Rebecca Caudill Immature Readers Book Accolade Nominee (Illinois)	1991
sixteen	The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb	Edgar Allan Poe Award, All-time Juvenile Sectionalisation, Nominee	1989
17	The Specter from the Magician's Museum	Georgia Author of the Year Laurels, Young Developed Partitioning	1998
xviii	The Specter from the Magician'southward Museum	New York Public Library "All-time Books for the Teen Age" Awards

Published books [edit]

Novels [edit]

#	Title	Month	Year	Series	Capacity	Pages	Author	Illustrator
01	St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies	Jun	1966		12	123	John Bellairs	Marilyn Fitschen
02	The Pedant and the Shuffly	Feb	1968		NA	79	John Bellairs	Marilyn Fitschen
03	The Face in the Frost		1969		11	174	John Bellairs	Marilyn Fitschen
04	The House with a Clock in Its Walls	January	1973	Lewis Barnavelt	11	179	John Bellairs	Edward Gorey
05	The Figure in the Shadows		1975	Lewis Barnavelt	13	155	John Bellairs	Mercer Mayer
06	The Letter, the Witch, and the Band	Jan	1976	Lewis Barnavelt	13	188	John Bellairs	Richard Egielski
07	The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn	May	1978	Anthony Monday	17	180	John Bellairs	Judith Gwyn Brown
08	The Curse of the Blue Figurine	May	1983	Johnny Dixon	12	200	John Bellairs	Edward Gorey
09	The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt	Nov	1983	Johnny Dixon	16	168	John Bellairs	Edward Gorey
x	The Dark Cloak-and-dagger of Weatherend	Jul	1984	Anthony Monday	15	182	John Bellairs	Edward Gorey
11	The Spell of the Sorcerer'southward Skull	Nov	1984	Johnny Dixon	11	170	John Bellairs	Edward Gorey
12	The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost	Nov	1985	Johnny Dixon	15	147	John Bellairs	Edward Gorey
xiii	The Eyes of the Killer Robot	Oct	1986	Johnny Dixon	17	167	John Bellairs	Edward Gorey
14	The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb	May	1988	Anthony Monday	xiv	168	John Bellairs	Edward Gorey
15	The Trolley to Yesterday	Jul	1989	Johnny Dixon	eighteen	183	John Bellairs	Edward Gorey
16	The Chessmen of Doom	Nov	1989	Johnny Dixon	16	155	John Bellairs	Edward Gorey
17	The Hole-and-corner of the Underground Room	Mar	1990	Johnny Dixon	13	127	John Bellairs	Edward Gorey
18	The Mansion in the Mist	Aug	1992	Anthony Monday	17	170	John Bellairs	Edward Gorey
nineteen	The Ghost in the Mirror	Apr	1993	Lewis Barnavelt	13	169	coauthors	Edward Gorey
20	The Vengeance of the Witch-finder	Sep	1993	Lewis Barnavelt	15	153	coauthors	Edward Gorey
21	The Pulsate, the Doll, and the Zombie	Sep	1994	Johnny Dixon	xv	153	coauthors	Edward Gorey
22	The Doom of the Haunted Opera	Sep	1995	Lewis Barnavelt	sixteen	153	coauthors	Edward Gorey
23	The Hand of the Necromancer	Sep	1996	Johnny Dixon	18	168	Brad Strickland	Edward Gorey
24	The Bong, the Book, and the Spellbinder	Oct	1997	Johnny Dixon	16	149	Brad Strickland	Edward Gorey
25	The Specter from the Magician'due south Museum	Mar	1998	Lewis Barnavelt	16	149	Brad Strickland	Edward Gorey
26	The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost	Sep	1999	Johnny Dixon	xv	166	Brad Strickland	Edward Gorey
27	The Beast Under the Wizard'south Span	Sep	2000	Lewis Barnavelt	fifteen	151	Brad Strickland	Edward Gorey
28	The Tower at the End of the Globe	Sep	2001	Lewis Barnavelt	fifteen	146	Brad Strickland	S. D. Schindler
29	The Whistle, the Grave, and the Ghost	Aug	2003	Lewis Barnavelt	xiv	152	Brad Strickland	South. D. Schindler
thirty	The House Where Nobody Lived	Oct	2006	Lewis Barnavelt	xviii	173	Brad Strickland	Bart Goldman
31	The Sign of the Sinister Magician	October	2008	Lewis Barnavelt	13	168	Brad Strickland	Bart Goldman

Some Lewis Barnavelt and Johnny Dixon books were outlined by Bellairs and completed by Strickland, who subsequently created new stories in both series.

Publishers [edit]

#	Title	Amber	Artist House	Runted Skylark/BDD	Barnes & Noble	Corgi	Dell Yearling/BDD	Punch/Penguin	Editions du Rocher	Editora Record	Gallimard Jeunesse	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich	Heyne	Macmillan	Mythopoeic Printing	NESFA Press	Puffin/Penguin	Shueisha Publishing
01	St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies													Y
02	The Pedant and the Shuffly													Y	Y
03	The Face in the Frost													Y
04	The House with a Clock in Its Walls	Y	Y				Y	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y				Y
05	The Effigy in the Shadows	Y	Y				Y	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y				Y
06	The Letter, the Witch, and the Band	Y	Y				Y	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y				Y
07	The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn			Y								Y
08	The Curse of the Blue Figurine	Y		Y		Y		Y	Y								Y
09	The Mummy, the Volition, and the Crypt	Y		Y		Y		Y	Y								Y	Y
x	The Dark Hush-hush of Weatherend			Y				Y									Y
xi	The Spell of the Sorcerer'southward Skull	Y		Y		Y		Y	Y								Y	Y
12	The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost			Y				Y	Y								Y	Y
13	The Eyes of the Killer Robot			Y				Y	Y								Y
14	The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb			Y				Y									Y
15	The Trolley to Yesterday			Y				Y	Y								Y
16	The Chessmen of Doom			Y				Y									Y
17	The Hole-and-corner of the Underground Room							Y	Y								Y
18	The Mansion in the Mist							Y									Y
nineteen	The Ghost in the Mirror	Y	Y					Y	Y				Y				Y
twenty	The Vengeance of the Witch-finder	Y	Y					Y	Y				Y				Y
21	The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie							Y	Y								Y
22	The Doom of the Haunted Opera	Y	Y					Y	Y				Y				Y
23	The Hand of the Necromancer							Y									Y
24	The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder							Y									Y
25	The Specter from the Wizard'due south Museum	Y	Y					Y	Y				Y				Y
26	The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost							Y									Y
27	The Animal Nether the Sorcerer's Bridge	Y	Y					Y	Y				Y				Y
28	The Belfry at the End of the World							Y	Y								Y
29	The Whistle, the Grave, and the Ghost							Y
thirty	The House Where Nobody Lived							Y
31	The Sign of the Sinister Magician							Y
32	Magic Mirrors															Y
33	The All-time of John Bellairs				Y
34	The Best of John Bellairs 2				Y

Adaptations [edit]

Films [edit]

On November eighteen, 2011, Mythology Entertainment, founded by Brad Fischer,^[31] co-president of production at Phoenix Pictures; Laeta Kalogridis; and James Vanderbilt announced that they hired Eric Kripke, creator of Supernatural and Revolution, to write and produce a characteristic moving-picture show based on John Bellairs' work through a partnership with John's estate. "Jamie, Laeta and I are thrilled to launch Mythology Entertainment and to be partnering with Eric Kripke and the estate of John Bellairs for our first feature project," Fischer said.

"Equally a kid, Eric was inspired by Bellairs' work and these books accept stayed with him through the years…. Equally a company, we aspire to be a haven for artists and friends who believe in the ability of myth and retrieve that feeling nosotros all got as kids, when the lights went downward and the images came up and anything was possible."^[32]

The film adaptation of Bellairs' novel The House with a Clock in Its Walls stars Jack Black as Uncle Jonathan, Cate Blanchett as Mrs. Zimmerman, and Owen Vaccaro as Lewis Barnavelt, and was directed by Eli Roth. It was released on September 21, 2018.^[33]

Audiobooks [edit]

#	Championship	Yr	Publisher	Narrator
01	The Face in the Frost	1995	Recorded Books	George Guidall
02	The Ghost in the Mirror	1995	Recorded Books	George Guidall
03	The Business firm with a Clock in Its Walls	1995	Recorded Books	George Guidall
04	The Lamp from the Warlock'south Tomb	1995	Recorded Books	Betty Low
05	The Mansion in the Mist	1995	Recorded Books	Betty Low

Tv [edit]

#	TV programme title	Volume title	Producer	Twelvemonth
01	Once Upon a Midnight Scary	The House with a Clock in Its Walls	VideoGems	1979
02	The Inkling According to Sherlock Holmes	The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn	VideoGems	1980
03	The House with a Clock in Its Walls	The House with a Clock in Its Walls	Barr Films	1991
04	The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn	The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn	Barr Films	1991

See also [edit]

• Lewis Barnavelt (series)
• Johnny Dixon (series)
• Anthony Monday (series)
• List of horror fiction authors

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

• Bellairsia | blog | forum – celebrating John Bellairs
• John Bellairs at Find a Grave
• John Bellairs at the Cyberspace Speculative Fiction Database
• John Bellairs at Library of Congress Government, with 42 catalog records
• John Bellairs Papers at the University of Minnesota Libraries

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