{"name": "John Bellairs", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "<b><a href=\"http://bellairsia.com\">John Bellairs</a></b> (1938\u20131991) was an American novelist working primarily in the Gothic genre.  He is best-known for the children's classic <i>The House with a Clock in its Walls</i> 1973) and for the pathbreaking fantasy novel <i>The Face in the Frost</i> (1969). Bellairs held a bachelor's degree from Notre Dame University and a master's in English from the University of Chicago.  He combined writing and teaching from 1963 to 1971, including a year at <a href=\"http://shimer.edu\">Shimer College</a> that coincided with that school's storied <a href=\"http://www.bellairsia.com/the_life/il/gis.html\">Grotesque Internecine Struggle</a>.  After 1971, he took up writing as his full-time work. (from <a href=\"http://shimercollege.wikia.com/John_Bellairs\">Shimer College Wiki</a>)"}, "photos": [8670905], "source_records": ["amazon:0140375112", "amazon:161756348X", "amazon:9877385082", "amazon:141763586X", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-06-17", "amazon:0553153757", "bwb:9781504084697"], "remote_ids": {"viaf": "29714698", "wikidata": "Q709295", "isni": "000000008108957X", "goodreads": "101070", "lc_naf": "n50006803"}, "alternate_names": ["Bellairs John", "The Estate of John Bellairs LLC (author)"], "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "death_date": "1991", "personal_name": "John Bellairs", "birth_date": "1938", "key": "/authors/OL541161A", "latest_revision": 12, "revision": 12, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-31T23:39:52.064529"}}