Attebery suggests that fantasy is a "fuzzy set" with no easily discernible boundaries, in contrast to the genre of science fiction. He is known for his non-fiction works on fantasy literature, such as the 1980 book The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin and the 1992 book Strategies of Fantasy. He is professor of English at Idaho State University, and the editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. He has also won the IAFA Award for distinguished scholarship and the Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement.Īttebery was born in December 1951, and received a doctorate in American Civilization from Brown University in 1979. Attebery is also editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, for which he received the World Fantasy Award in 2021. He is known for his studies of fantasy literature, including The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin (1980) and Strategies of Fantasy (1992) which won the Mythopoeic Award. World Fantasy Award for Best Non-Professional (2021)Įmeritus professor of English and philosophyīrian Attebery (born December 1951) is an American writer and emeritus professor of English and philosophy at Idaho State University.
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