Campbell Armstrong was born in Glasgow. He has a degree in philosophy
from the University of Sussex. He taught creative writing from 1971-74
at the State University of New York; from 1975-78 he taught at Arizona
State University.
| He disliked teaching immensely so, in 1978, he began to write fiction
fulltime; he had already published Assassins & Victims (1968);
The
Punctual Rape (1969) and Death’s Head (1971). In 1979, after
he quit the academic life, he published Asterisk Destiny, and the
following year Brainfire. |
photos by Geoff Wilkinson/People magazine
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He remained in Arizona until 1991, during which time he wrote the novelization
of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Brian De Palma’s Dressed To Kill.
He also wrote the novels Jig, Mambo and Mazurka, between
1986 and 1989. In 1990 he published Concert of Ghosts, and in 1991
his novel of corrupt American influence in the Philippines, Agents of
Darkness.
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After 20 years in the US, he longed to return to Europe. Early in 1991
he moved to Ireland, to the heart of the bog, with his wife Rebecca. He
has since written Jigsaw, Heat, Silencer and Blackout. |
He also published a memoir called I Hope You Have A Good Life (2000).
His forthcoming novel is The Bad Fire (2001).
He has three sons and a daughter, and lives in an old house reputed
to be haunted.
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