Personal Life
Charles L. Grant was born in Newark, New Jersey. He received a B.A. from Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut in 1964. He taught for four years. Then from 1968–1970 Grant served in the U.S Army military police in Vietnam, and was awarded a Bronze Star. He was Secretary of Science Fiction Writers of America from 1973–1977. Grant married Debbie Voss, with whom he had two children, Ian Matthew and Emily Kathryn. Ian has two sons Payton and Logan; Emily has a son, Aaron and a daughter, Ella. Grant married writer and editor Kathryn Ptacek in February, 1982.
Suffering ill health in his later years, Grant died on September 15, 2006 from a heart attack.
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