One of his teachers there was the memoirist Frank McCourt. He attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. From third to eighth grade, Ruff attended a parochial school. Many adults around him attempted to persuade him to choose a different career, but Ruff's mother was supportive of his hope to become a writer for one of Ruff's birthdays, she bought him an IBM Selectric typewriter. Ruff has said that reading these aloud in English class was his first experience performing in front of an audience and his first solid evidence that he had what it took to entertain people with his storytelling. In elementary school, he wrote a number of short stories, many of them starring his classmates in scenarios cribbed from movies or TV. He spent his childhood and adolescence learning how to tell stories. At the age of 5, he decided he wanted to be a fiction writer. His father was a hospital chaplain, and his maternal grandfather was a missionary. Ruff was born in New York City in 1965 to a Lutheran family of German ancestry.

And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his – and the whole Turner clan’s – destruction.Matthew Theron Ruff (born September 8, 1965) is an American author of thriller, science-fiction and comic novels, including The Mirage and Lovecraft Country, the latter having been adapted in 2020 by HBO into a TV series. Braithwhite – heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus’s ancestors – they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.Īt the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn – led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb – which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. When his father Montrose goes missing, twenty-two year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George – publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide – and his childhood friend Letitia. Abrams, Misha Green and Jordan Peele (Director of Get Out)Ī chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism – the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.Ĭhicago, 1954. The New York Times bestselling book behind the HBO Series from J.J.

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