Sam Weller (born January 31, 1967) is an American journalist, and author of fiction and nonfiction, best known for being writer Ray Bradbury's authorized biographer. Weller's 2005 book, The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury (HarperCollins) is a full-biography and winner of the Society of Midland Author's Award in the "Biography" category. 2010's Listen to the Echoes, The Ray Bradbury Interviews (Melville House Publishing) is a collection of interviews, photos, mementos, and artifacts. Weller's 2014 Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (Melville House Publishing) features his last interview with Bradbury, and recounts Bradbury's influences, creative processes, and love for writing and reading. Biography Weller was born in Lake Forest, Illinois. His The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury was a Los Angeles Times best-seller, winner of the 2005 Society of Midland Authors Award for Best Biography, and a Bram Stoker Award finalist. The companion book, Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews, was published by Melville House/Stop Smiling Books in 2010 and was also a Bram Stoker Award finalist.. With Mort Castle, Weller co-edited the anthology Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (William Morrow Paperbacks, July 2012), winner of the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for "Superior Achievement in an Anthology." The anthology was also a Shirley Jackson Award nominee. In 2014, Weller edited Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview (Melville House), his final conversations with the writer. The book also included several previously unpublished rough draft essays by Bradbury, dictated to Weller. Also in 2014, IDW Comics released a five-issue Shadow Show comic book series curated and largely scripted by Weller and Mort Castle. The graphic novel compendium of this series was the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for "Superior Achievement in Graphic Novels." Weller is the former Midwest correspondent for Publishers Weekly magazine. He has written for The Paris Review, Playboy, All Things Considered, Slate Magazine, The Huffington Post, National Public Radio and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Weller's short fiction has appeared in books, literary journals and magazines, including the Chicago Reader, Printers Row Journal, and Rosebud. His pop-cultural essays have appeared in Post Road, Huffington Post Annalemma, and PopMatters, among many other publications. Weller is a former associate professor in the Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. In September 2020, Weller's acclaimed collection of short stories, Dark Black, was published by Hat & Beard Press. Newcity