Joe R. Lansdale

Joe R. Lansdale strikes me as a writer who turned the Texas landscape itself into prose. Roaming freely across horror, science fiction, mystery, and Western, and doubling as a martial arts instructor, he has a range that should scatter most authors but instead concentrates into something distinctly his own. The Edgar Award and a Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award prove he leaps genre walls with ease. What I admire most is that beneath all that restless variety runs a single steady current: a deep love of place and people. He is the opposite of a jack-of-all-trades, a genuine, full-blooded storyteller.

Name (English)

Joe R. Lansdale

Name (Japanese)

ジョー・R・ランズデール

Reading

じょー・R・らんずでーる

Born

October 28, 1951 (age 74)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rabbit

Origin

Gladewater, Texas, United States

Occupation

writer / novelist / screenwriter / science fiction writer

University

University of Texas at Austin

Awards & achievements

• 2001 Edgar Awards
• 2001 Inkpot Award
• 2007 World Horror Convention Grand Master Award
• 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology
• 1990 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction
• 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement
• 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction
• 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction

• Official sitehttps://joerlansdale.com
• Xhttps://x.com/joelansdale
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20R.%20Lansdale
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BBR%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA%E3%83%87%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q665768

Tags

• Texas
• writer
• novelist
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-23

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.