Nevins, Jess

LC control no.	n 2004025380
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Nevins, Jess *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Nevins, John J.
Birth date	1966-07-30
Place of birth	Boston (Mass.)
Found in	Nevins, Jess. Heroes & monsters, c2003: t.p. (Jess Nevins) Pulp magazines holdings directory, 2007: ECIP t.p. (Jess Nevins) data view (b. July 30, 1966) English Wikipedia website, viewed May 4, 2016: (John J. Nevins (born July 30, 1966) is an American author and librarian. He born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. Nevins is the author of the World Fantasy Award-nominated Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana (MonkeyBrain Books, 2005), and other works on Victoriana and pulp fiction. He is also well known for his extensive comic book annotations, especially The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He is a reference librarian at Lone Star College-Tomball) Encycl. of Science Fiction (online), viewed May 4, 2016: (Working name of US reference librarian and author John J Nevins (1966- ), most of whose work to date has been nonfiction, with an emphasis on Fantastika, initially focusing on the study and annotation of Superhero Comics; has also written The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana (2005), which comprises a set of extensive entries on characters featured in the fantastic literature of the nineteenth century, focusing on Heroes and heroines and Villains who appear in tales of the fantastic as defined in this encyclopedia, but including protagonists of other genres as well: thrillers, swashbucklers, adventures stories of every sort)