There were also Odd Thomas Webisodes(Odd Passenger 1-4) which would be read after Brother Odd and before Odd Hours. These three are prequels to the very first published novel Odd Thomas, and chronogically would be read before that.
The Odd Thomas series has the graphic novels In Odd We Trust, Odd is On Our Side and House of Odd. Dean and Gerda Koontz live in southern California with their golden retriever, Anna, and with the enduring spirit of their golden, Trixie.CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF DEAN KOONTZ BOOKS: After he had been a year and a half in that position, his wife, Gerda, made him an offer he couldn’t refuse: “i’ll support you for five years,” she said, “and if you can’t make it as a writer in that time, you’ll ever make it.” By the end of those five years, Gerda had quit her job to run the business end of her husband’s writing career. He wrote nights and weekends, which he continued to do after leaving the poverty program and going to work as an English teacher outside of Harrisburg. The following year was filled with challenges but also tension, and Koontz was more highly motivated than ever to build a career as a writer.
He graduated from Shippensburg State College (now Shippensburg University), and his first job after graduation was in the Appalachian Poverty Program, where he was expected to counsel and tutor underprivileged children. a grotesque world, much like that of Flannery O’Conner or Waker Percy…scary, worthwhile reading.”ĭean Koontz was born and raised in Pennsylvania. The New York Times has called his writing “psychologically complex, masterly, and satisfying,” and the London Times had called him “a literary juggler.” The New Orleans Times-Picayune said Koontz is “at times lyrical without ever being naive or romantic. Fifty-six of his novels have been New York Times best-sellers and thirteen have risen to #1 on the hardcover best-seller list. His books are published in 36 languages worldwide sales are nearly 450 million copies. When Dean Koontz was a senior in college, he won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition and has been writing ever since.
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