Next, he went to the University of Chicago, where he graduated with a degree in Philosophy in 1991. He attended a boarding school in Claremont named The Webb School of California. In addition, at the age of 6 he even read The People’s Almanac, by David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace. His family was always poor, and this early experience led him to writer later on his famous essay titled Being Poor,ĭuring his childhood, he enjoyed reading science-fiction novels and mystery books, a passion that he carried with him into adulthood to become, later on, a prolific sci-fi author. John Scalzi grew up in several Los Angeles cities such as Covina, Glendora, Azusa, and San Dimas. He is part Italian through his grandfather who emigrated to the US from Italy when he was a child. John Scalzi (full name John Michael Scalzi II) was born in 1969, in Fairfield, California as one of three children to a single mother. Scalzi at the 2018 Phoenix Comic Fest by Gage Skidmore

Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies, 2018.

You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop, 2007.

Uncle John’s Presents Book of the Dumb 2, 2004.

Uncle John’s Presents Book of the Dumb, 2003.A Very Scalzi Christmas, 2019 (short story collection).Miniatures, 2016 (short story collection).Everything but the Squeal, 2016 (novella).After the Coup (Old Man’s War short story), 2010.Questions for a Soldier (Old Man’s War short story), 2005.Judge Sn Goes Golfing (The Android’s Dream #1.5), 2009.The Android’s Dream (The Android’s Dream #1), 2006.The End of All Things (Old Man’s War #6), 2015.The Human Division (Old Man’s War #5), 2013.The Last Colony (Old Man’s War #3), 2007.The Ghost Brigades (Old Man’s War #2), 2006.Questions for a Soldier (novella), 2005.The Last Emperox (Interdependency #3), 2020

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