Chris Offutt [SEP] father
in Lexington, Kentucky, the son of Andrew J. Offutt, an author, and his wife Jodie. His brother Jeff Offutt is a professor of software engineering. He has two sisters, Scotty Hyde, who lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Melissa Offutt, in San Diego. They grew up in Haldeman, a small former mining community located in Rowan County in the Appalachian Mountain foothills of eastern Kentucky. They all attended public schools. Offutt quit high school intending to join the army, but failed the physical.
. Thirty more remained unpublished at the time of his death. So prolific was Offutt in this area that in summing up his writing career his son Chris wrote that he "came to understand that my father had passed as a science-fiction writer while actually pursuing a 50-year career as a pornographer."
Bibliography.
Bibliography Thieves' World.
- "Shadowspawn" (1979) in "Thieves' World"
- "Shadow's Pawn" (1980)
- "The Vivisectionist" (1981)