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Lloyd Biggle Jr.


Born
in Waterloo, The United States
April 17, 1923

Died
September 12, 2002


Biggle was born in 1923 in Waterloo, Iowa. He served in World War II as a communications sergeant in a rifle company of the 102nd Infantry Division; during the war, he was wounded twice. His second wound, a shrapnel wound in his leg received near the Elbe River at the end of the war, left him disabled for life.

After the war, Biggle resumed his education. He received an A.B. Degree with High Distinction from Wayne State University and M.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. Biggle taught at the University of Michigan and at Eastern Michigan University in the 1950s. He began writing professionally in 1955 and became a full-time writer with the publication of his novel, All the Colors of Darkness in 1963; he continued in the wr ...more

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Average rating: 3.86 · 3,092 ratings · 415 reviews · 141 distinct works • Similar authors
Monument
4.12 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 1974 — 15 editions
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All the Colors of Darkness
3.85 avg rating — 310 ratings — published 1963 — 22 editions
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The Still, Small Voice of T...
3.99 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 1968 — 13 editions
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The World Menders (Interpla...
3.76 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 1971 — 18 editions
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Watchers of the Dark
3.88 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1966 — 26 editions
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The Fury Out of Time
3.53 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1965 — 19 editions
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Silence is Deadly
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1977 — 8 editions
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3.51 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1972 — 9 editions
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The Light That Never Was
3.72 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1972 — 15 editions
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The Rule of the Door and Ot...
3.95 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1967 — 11 editions
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All the Colors of Darkness Watchers of the Dark This Darkening Universe Silence is Deadly The Whirligig of Time
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“Beauty he loved for its own sake; ugliness, which more often than not was a form of inverted beauty, fascinated him. Life offered far too little of either, and far too much appalling mediocrity, which he thought hideous.”
― Lloyd Biggle Jr., The Still, Small Voice of Trumpets
tags: beauty, life, mediocrity, ugliness, ugly
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