Jack Vance

John Holbrook “Jack” Vance was born on August 28, 1916. He was an American fantasy, mystery plus science creative writing author. Most of Vance’s work was published under his name “Jack Vance”, however, 9 of the mystery novels he wrote used his full name John Holbrook Vance, while 3 of his published books of the same genre were written under his pseudonym Ellery Queen. He wrote 4 other books, each under different names, namely John Van See, Peter Wade, Alan Held and Jay Kavanse. In some editions of the books he wrote, his year of birth was indicated as 1920.