Robert Rick McCammon is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. One of the influential names in the late 1970s?early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCammon had three New York Times bestsellers and 5 million books in print. His parents are Jack, a musician, and Barbara Bundy McCammon. After his parents' divorce, McCammon lived with his grandparents in Birmingham. He received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Alabama in 1974. McCammon currently resides in Birmingham. He has a daughter, Skye, with his former wife, Sally Sanders. After the release of Gone South, McCammon chose to leave his publisher. After clashing with an editor at a new publisher over the direction for his historical fiction novel Speaks the Nightbird, he retired from writing. After a long hiatus which resulted from the reorganization of the publishing industry and McCammon?s personal depression and soul searching, he returned to the publishing world with Speaks the Nightbird, the first book in the Matthew Corbett series. As of 2008, his plans are to continue with the series. In 1985, McCammon's story "Nightcrawlers" was adapted into an episode of The New Twilight Zone. 

July 17th, 1952 in Birmingham (Age 71)