Robert Rankin

Robert Rankin is one of the well known authors of The United Kingdom who has written some of the very successful books based on the fantasy and fiction genres. He is particularly famous as a humorous novelist. Author Rankin was born on July 27, 1949, in Parsons Green, London, England. He began his writing career during the late 1970s and became a bestselling author for the first time in his career in the year 1999, after the publication of his book titled ‘Snuff Fiction’. Before achieving success with this novel, author Rankin had already written and published 18 million copies, for which he had sold around one million printed copies altogether. All the books that he has written are a mixture of fantasy, urban legends, science fiction, the occult, running gags, Steampunk, outrageous, and metafiction characters. As per the largely fictional biography given in some of the Corgi editions of his novels, author Rankin has referred to his style of writing a a Far Fetched Fiction with the hope that the bookkeepers will allow a different sections for his books.