Louis Whitley Strieber is an American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion, a non-fiction account of his perceived experiences with non-human entities. He has maintained a dual career of author and advocate of alternative concepts . Strieber was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Karl Strieber, a lawyer and Mary Drought Strieber. He attended Central Catholic Marianist High School in San Antonio, Texas. He was educated at the University of Texas at Austin and the London School of Film Technique, graduating from each in 1968. He then worked... for several advertising firms in New York City, rising to the level of vice president before leaving in 1977 to pursue a writing career. Strieber began his career as a novelist with the horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger , each of which was later made into a movie, followed by the less successful horror novels Black Magic and The Night Church . Strieber then turned to speculative fiction.
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