Matt Ruff

Matthew Theron Ruff (born September 8, 1965 in Queens, New York) is an American author of thriller, science-fiction and comic novels. Ruff grew up in New York City. He attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan; one of his teachers there was the memoirist Frank McCourt. He graduated from Cornell University in 1987. The author's first novel, Fool on the Hill, is a fantasy that drew on his experiences living in Risley Residential College at Cornell. Published shortly after Ruff graduated from the university, it gained an early cult following which continues to this day. His second book Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy is postcyberpunk; it helped him to become a fully settled writer. He became fairly well known not only in...