By this time, Laymon was determined to become a writer. In 1963, the family moved to Tiburon, California. His story won a $5 prize, and his English teacher named him “the most prolific writer in school.” Later the same year, two poems and a short story were published in the Glenbrook High School literary magazine. Laymon fans will no doubt be amused to know that his first published work appeared in 1962 in the Northbrook Methodist Church newsletter - it was a regular article updating the congregation on the activities of the church youth group.
As a result, their summers were spent camping, swimming, fishing and boating in the Wisconsin woods - memories of these times made their way into much of his fiction.
His parents encouraged and were deeply involved with their sons’ scouting efforts. The family, including Richard and his older brother, attended Methodist Church. After the war, his father worked for Chicago publisher Henry Regnery. He grew up in a traditional home his mother was a homemaker and his father was a World War II veteran who won the Distinguished Flying Cross. Richard Laymon was born Januin Chicago, Illinois. While he is sometimes associated with the Splatterpunk movement, it seems to me his work never fully fit into that category, outlasting the widespread popularity of that sub-genre by many years. Laymon’s work rose to prominence in America and the UK in the 1980s. He began his career writing mystery and suspense stories, but later became known for compulsively readable graphic horror novels. Richard Laymon (Janu– February 14, 2001) was an American author of horror and suspense.
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