Scott William Carter is an American

United States

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 science fiction

Science fiction

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, fantasy

Fantasy

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, adolescent, and juvenile

Children's literature

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

 writer.

Biography

Carter was born in Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

 and raised in Oregon's Willamette Valley

Willamette Valley

The Willamette Valley is the most populated region in the state of Oregon of the United States. Located in the state's northwest, the region is surrounded by tall mountain ranges to the east, west and south and the valley's floor is broad, flat and fertile because of Ice Age conditions...

. Before becoming a professional writer, Carter owned a book store, worked as a ski instructor, and computer trainer. He decided to become a full-time writer after working four nights picking beets off a conveyor belt at a cannery.

Carter attended the University of Oregon

University of Oregon

-Colleges and schools:The University of Oregon is organized into eight schools and colleges—six professional schools and colleges, an Arts and Sciences College and an Honors College.- School of Architecture and Allied Arts :...

, graduating in 1994 with a Bachelor's of Arts in English. He is married and is a father of two children, a daughter and a son.

Novels

• The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys (2010) ISBN 1-4169-7156-4
• President Jock, Vice President Geek (2011) ISBN 0-6154-8382-8
• Drawing a Dark Way: A Fantasy Adventure (forthcoming, August 2011)

Collections

• The Dinosaur Diaries and Other Tales Across Space and Time (2010) ISBN 1-6045-9934-0
• A Web of Black Widows (2010) ISBN 1-8486-3037-9

Short stories

• The Liberators (2009) [electronic download]
• Tommy Top Hat (2010) [free electronic download]
• A Dark Planetarium (2010) [free electronic download]
• The Dragon of the Dolomites (2011) [free electronic download]

Anthologized short stories

• "Liberators", Analog Science Fiction and Fact (2004) Vol. 124, No. 4.
• "A Christmas in Amber", Analog Science Fiction and Fact (2005) Vol. 125, No. 12.
• "Father Hagerman's Dog", Analog Science Fiction and Fact (2007) Vol. 127, No 6.
• "The Bear Who Sang Opera", Analog Science Fiction and Fact (2009) Vol. 129, No. 7 & 8.
• "The Android Who Became a Human Who Became an Android", Analog Science Fiction and Fact (2010) Vol. 130, No. 7 & 8.

External links

• Scott William Carter's official homepage