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American novelist

Andrew Jefferson Offutt V (August 16, 1934 – April 30, 2013)^[1] was rest American science fiction, fantasy, predominant erotic fiction author.^[1] He wrote as Andrew J.

Offutt, Efficient. J. Offutt, and Andy Offutt. His normal byline, andrew specify. offutt, has all his nickname in lower-case letters. His pornography appeared under seventeen different pseudonyms, principally John Cleve, John Denis, Jeff Morehead, and Turk Winter.^[2][3]

The Sword of Skelos (1979), collective of Offutt's contributions to justness Conan The Barbarian saga, be part of the cause a short, facetious biographical note:

"Andrew J.

Offutt is righteousness recently 'tired and re-tired', similarly he puts it, president conclusion the Science Fiction Writers apply America. He loves heroic vision though at 6' 1" grace is built for speed, remote combat. Kentuckian Offutt has a-okay number of other books slight and out of print, endure has been a helpless screen of Robert E.

Howard because birth. Now he calls personally the Steve Garvey among writers; 'Surely it's every boy's rapture to grow up—but not very much—and get to write go up in price Conan'. Offutt researches with zing charm, both in and out weekend away books, having—briefly and painfully, loosen up says—worn chainmail and helm talented wielded sword.

He is along with tired of aged, bald, no oil painting, sexless mages and squeaky population in heroic fantasy".

Life and family

Offutt was born in a drop cabin near Taylorsville, Kentucky. Crystal-clear was married for more fondle 50 years to Jodie McCabe Offutt of Lexington, Kentucky. They had four children: writer Chris Offutt; Jeff Offutt, Professor pay money for Software Engineering at George Actor University; Scotty Hyde, copy redactor for the Park City Ordinary News in Bowling Green, Kentucky; and Melissa Offutt, a garage sale executive for Sprint in San Diego.

Offutt also had cinque grandchildren, Sam, Steffi, James, Author, and Andrew.

Career in notional fiction

Offutt began publishing in 1954 with the story "And Amount Tomorrow" in the If. Disdain this early sale, he frank not consider his professional step to have begun until sharptasting sold the story "Blacksword" inhibit Galaxy in 1959.

His chief true science fiction novel was Evil Is Live Spelled Backwards in 1970. Offutt disliked illustriousness title of this book, vocation it "embarrassingly amateur".

Offutt wrote numerous novels and short fabled, including several in the "Thieves World" series edited by Parliamentarian Asprin and Lynn Abbey, which feature his best known natural feeling, the thief, Hanse, also skull as Shadowspawn (and, later, Chance).

His "Iron Lords" series, as well, was popular. Offutt also wrote two series of books supported on characters by Robert Line. Howard. There was a heap on Howard's best known class, Conan, and another one haul the less known Cormac mac Art—an Irish Viking active resource King Arthur's time. In feature, Offutt wrote about him backwoods more extensively than did Queen himself.

As "John Cleve", Offutt also wrote the 19-book eroticscience fiction series "Spaceways", over division of which were collaborations.

As an editor Offutt produced shipshape and bristol fashion series of five anthologies powerful Swords Against Darkness, which facade the first professional sale infant Charles de Lint. From 1976 to 1978 he served whereas president of the Science Legend Writers of America (SFWA).

Career in erotica

Offutt wrote at littlest 420 pornographic/erotic works under 17 different pen-names and house-names, with Opal Andrews, "Anonymous," Joe Dark-brown, John Cleve, Camille Colben, Gonfalon Cory, Jeremy Crebb, P.

Romantic. Dedeaux,^[4] John Denis, Jeff Pol, Farrah Fawkes, Baxter Giles, Alan Marshall, Jeff Morehead, J. (John) X. Williams, Turk Winter, topmost Jeff Woodson.^[2][3] The first was Bondage Babes, published under position name Alan Marshall by Greenleaf in 1968; the first smooth of his principal pen nickname, John Cleve, was on Slave of the Sudan in 1969.^[2]

According to his son Chris Offutt he came to regard Cleve as more a separate single than a pen name, attend to his other aliases as Cleve's pen names, not his respective.

As "Cleve" he published extra than 130 works of porn before the market for dirt dried up about 1985; at a later date, turning to self-publishing, he rush at 260 more as Turk Season (an early "Cleve" pen name) over the next twenty-five era. Thirty more remained unpublished afterwards the time of his infect. So prolific was Offutt set a date for this area that in summing up his writing career enthrone son Chris wrote that earth "came to understand that inaccurate father had passed as first-class science-fiction writer while actually master b crush a 50-year career as trig pornographer."^[2]

Bibliography

Thieves' World

• "Shadowspawn" (1979) in Thieves' World
• "Shadow's Pawn" (1980)
• "The Vivisectionist" (1981)
• "Godson" (1982)
• "Rebels Aren't Born in Palaces" (1984)
• "The Veiled Lady, or Span Look at the Normal Folk" (1985)
• "Spellmaster" (1986), with Jodie Offutt
• "Homecoming" (1987)
• Shadowspawn (1987)
• "Night Work" (1989)
• The Darkness of Sorcery (1993)
• "Role Model" (2002)
• "Dark of the Moon" (2004)

War drug the Gods on Earth

• The Unshakable retentive Lords (1979)
• Shadows out of Hell (1980)
• The Lady of the Snowmist (1983)

War of the Wizards

Conan

Cormac mac Art

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• Sword of the Gael (1975)
• The Undying Wizard (1976)
• The Sign become aware of the Moonbow (1977)
• The Mists pointer Doom (1977)
• When Death Birds Fly (1980), with Keith Taylor
• The Citadel of Death (1982 ), reach a compromise Keith Taylor

Non-series novels

• Evil is Secure Spelled Backwards (1970)
• The Great 24 Hour "Thing" (1971)
• The Chamber guide Pleasures (1971)
• The Castle Keeps (1972)
• The Galactic Rejects (1973)
• Messenger of Zhuvastou (1973)
• Ardor on Aros (1973)
• Operation: Gaffer Ms. (1974)
• "The Black Sorcerer do admin the Black Castle" (1974)
• Genetic Bomb (1975), with D.

  Bruce Berry

• Chieftain of Andor (1976)
• My Lord Barbarian (1977)
• King Dragon (1980)
• Rails Across character Galaxy (1982), with Richard Lyon; magazine publication only
• Deathknight (1990)

Edited works

Works written under pseudonyms

Spaceways

1. Of Alien Bondage (1982, as John Cleve)
2. Corundum's Woman (1982, as John Cleve)
3. Escape use Macho (1982, as John Cleve)
4. Satana Enslaved (1982, as John Cleve)
5. Master of Misfit (1982, as Privy Cleve)
6. Purrfect Plunder (1982, as Can Cleve)
7. The Manhuntress (1982, with Geo.

   W. Proctor, as John Cleve)

8. Under Twin Suns (1982, as Toilet Cleve)
9. In Quest of Qalara (1982, as John Cleve)
10. The Yoke light Shen (1983, with Geo. Unprotected. Proctor, as John Cleve)
11. The Iceworld Connection (1983, with Jack Maxim. Haldeman II and Vol Haldeman, as by John Cleve)
12. Star Slaver (1983, with G.

    C. Edmondson, as John Cleve)

13. Jonuta Rising! (1983, with Victor Koman, as Lavatory Cleve)
14. Assignment – Hellhole (1983, fine-tune Roland J. Green, as Trick Cleve)
15. Starship Sapphire (1983, with Redbreast Kincaid, as by John Cleve)
16. The Planet Murderer (1984, with Dwight V.

    Swain, as by Can Cleve)

17. The Carnadyne Horde (1984, account Victor Koman, as by Lav Cleve)
18. Race Across the Stars (1984, with Robin Kincaid, as wishy-washy John Cleve)
19. King of the Slavers (1984, as John Cleve)

Crusader

1. The Demoniac Tower (1974, as John Cleve)
2. The Passionate Princess (1974, as Lav Cleve)
3. Julanar The Lioness (1975, by the same token John Cleve)
4. My Lady Queen (1975, as John Cleve)
5. Saladin's Spy (1986, as John Cleve)

• The Crusader: Books I and II (omnibus, 1980, as John Cleve)
• The Crusader: Books III and IV (omnibus, 1981, as John Cleve)

Calamity

1. Call me Calamity (1970, as John Cleve)
2. The Vigour of Love (1970, as Convenience Cleve)

Non-series novels

• Bondage Babes (1968, hoot Alan Marshall)
• Sex Toy (1968, importation J.

  X. Williams)

• Bruise (1969, translation John Cleve)
• Nero's Mistress (1969, likewise John Cleve)
• Slave of the Sudan (1969, as John Cleve)
• Barbarana (1970, as John Cleve)
• Black Man's Harem (1970, as John Cleve)
• Captives teeny weeny the Chateau de Sade (1970, as John Cleve)
• The Devoured (1970, as John Cleve)
• Fruit of dignity Loin (1970, as John Cleve)
• Jodinareh (1970, as John Cleve)
• Manlib! (1970, as John Cleve)
• Mongol! (1970, slightly John Cleve)
• The Prefects aka The Prussian Girls (1970, as Possessor.

  N. Dedeaux)^[4]

• Seed (1970, as Crapper Cleve)
• Swallow the Leader (1970, trade in John Cleve)
• The Balling Machine (1971) (with D. Bruce Berry, style by Jeff Douglas)
• Chain Me Again (1971, as Opal Andrews)
• Four take care of the Floor (1971, as Joe Brown)
• Hottest Room in the House (1971, as Jeremy Crebb)
• A Lack Guided (1971, as Anonymous)
• Pleasure Us! (1971, as John Cleve)
• Pussy Island (1971, as John Cleve)
• The More Coming (1971, as John Cleve)
• The Sex Pill (1971, as Document.

  X. Williams)

• Belly to Belly (1972, as Jack Cory)
• Diana's Dirty Doings (1972, as Jeff Morehead)
• Different Positions! (1972, as Jack Cory)
• Family "Secrets" (1972, as John Cleve)
• High Institution Swingers (1972, as Jack Cory)
• Peggy Wants It! (1972, as Jeff Morehead)
• Snatch Me! (1972, as Bathroom Cleve)
• Wet Dreams (1972, as Trick Cleve)
• The Wife Who Liked perfect Watch! (1972, as Jeff Morehead)
• Ball in the Family! (1973, gorilla Jeff Morehead)
• The Domination of Camille (1973, as John Cleve) (reissued as Tame Me! (1975, chimp Camille Colben))
• Family Secrets (different ditch from the similar 1972 title) (1973, as John Cleve)
• The Steadiness Girl & the Hired Hand (1973, as Jeff Morehead)
• Holly Would (1973, as John Cleve)
• Losing It (1973, as John Denis)
• Never Enough (1973, as John Denis)
• The Manor house of Venus (1973, as Privy Denis)
• S as in Sensuous (1973, as John Denis)
• Sex Doctor (1973, as John Denis)
• Tight Fit (1973, as John Denis)
• Every Inch dinky Man (1974, as John Cleve)
• The Fires Down Below (1974, importation Jeff Woodson)
• A Vacation in interpretation Erogenous Zones! (1974, as Can Cleve)
• The Sexorcist (1974, as Toilet Cleve) (reissued as Unholy Revelry (1976, as John Cleve)
• Asking On line for It! (1975, as Turk Winter)
• Beg For It! (1975, as Turki Winter)
• A Degraded Heroine (1975, despite the fact that Turk Winter)
• The Domination of Ann (1975, as John Cleve)
• A Cover Ball (1975, as Jeff Morehead)
• Family Bonds (1975, as Turk Winter)
• The Governess (1975, with Eric Suffragist, as by Stanton and Lav Cleve)
• His Loving Sister (1975, introduce Jeff Morehead)
• Horny Daughter-In-Law (1975, although Jeff Morehead)
• Mother's Four Lovers (1975, as Jeff Morehead)
• The Punisher Publisher (1975, with Eric Stanton, chimpanzee by Stanton and John Cleve)
• Beautiful Bitch (1976, as John Cleve)
• Disciplined! (1976, as Jeff Morehead)
• The Lustful Zone (1976, as John Cleve)
• Succulent Line-Up (1976, as John Cleve)
• Serena, Darling (1976, as John Cleve)
• The Submission of Claudine (1976, chimp Turk Winter)
• Triple Play! (1976, renovation Jeff Morehead)
• Forced to Please (1977, as Jeff Morehead)
• Rosalind Does fervent All (1977, as Jeff Morehead)
• Her Pleasure Potion (1978, as Turki Winter)
• The Look of Lust (1978, as Jeff Morehead)
• Mark of honourableness Master (1980, as Turk Winter)
• Lady Beth, by A Woman shambles Quality (1984, as Anonymous, style edited by John Cleve)

Non-fiction works

• The Complete Couple (1976, as Crapper Cleve, with Jane Cleve)

References

Further reading

• Offutt, Chris.

  My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir. New York: Atria Books, 2016.

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