John M. Ford Net Worth

John M. Ford was a prolific writer and game designer born in East Chicago, United States on April 10, 1957. He was known for his good-humor, sprightly spirit and striking aura, and was a regular contributor to online discussions and composed countless poems. His works were mostly written in the ‘science-fiction’ and ‘fantasy’ category, and two of his best-known works include ‘The Last Hot Time’ and ‘Growing up Weightless’. He also wrote reviews, short-fiction works, and used the ‘Bildungsroman’ setting for a great number of his works. In addition to writing, he helped design a number of games including ‘The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues’, ‘Star Trek III’ and wrote Klingon manuals and several RPG articles.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Novelist, Writer, Game Designer
Birth Day April 10, 1957
Birth Place East Chicago, United States
Age 63 YEARS OLD
Died On September 25, 2006(2006-09-25) (aged 49)\nMinneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Birth Sign Taurus
Occupation Novelist, writer, game designer
Genre Science fiction, fantasy, cyberpunk
Partner Elise Matthesen

💰 Net worth: $7 Million (2024)

John M. Ford, a highly talented and versatile individual, is renowned for his outstanding contributions in various fields. As a celebrated novelist, writer, and game designer in the United States, he has left an indelible mark on the literary and gaming industries. Known for his exceptional storytelling abilities and creative vision, Ford is highly esteemed within these communities. Additionally, his net worth is estimated to reach an impressive $7 million by 2024, reflecting his incredible success and the impact of his work.

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Biography/Timeline

1970

Ford was born in East Chicago, Indiana, and raised in Whiting, Indiana. In the mid-1970s he attended Indiana University Bloomington, where he was active in the IU science fiction club and Society for Creative Anachronism (using the name Miles Atherton de Grey); while there, he published his first short story "This, Too, We Reconcile" in the May 1976 Analog.

1978

Ford left IU and moved to New York to work on the newly founded Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, where, starting in mid-1978, he published poetry, fiction, articles, and game reviews. Although his last non-fiction appeared there in September 1981, he was tenth most frequent contributor for the 1977–2002 period. About 1990, he moved to Minneapolis. In addition to writing, he worked at various times as a hospital orderly, computer consultant, slush pile reader, and copy Editor.

1980

Ford plotted three issues of the Captain Confederacy alternate history comics in the late 1980s and wrote issue number 10, "Driving North."

1983

Ford's 1983 book The Klingons for FASA's Star Trek role-playing game influenced later Paramount productions. Ford authored the award-winning adventure The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues (1985) for West End Games' Paranoia role-playing game.

1984

Ford published some children's fiction under pseudonyms that he did not make public, and two children's gamebooks under house names Michael J. Dodge (Star Trek: Voyage to Adventure, 1984) and Milo Dennison (The Case of the Gentleman Ghost, 1985).

1989

Ford published a variety of short fiction and poetry, from short short stories that are essentially fantastic jokes, to novellas revealing a deep understanding of human frailties and emotions. His poem "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station" won the World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction in 1989.

1993

Ford avoided repetition not only of the work of others, but also of his own work. Where many Writers make a name for themselves by developing a known style that repeats in many books, Ford always surprised with his ability to use a variety of styles that best suited the world, characters, and situations he had chosen to write about. (John Clute expressed this in 1993 The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as "Two decades into his career, there remains some sense that JMF remains unwilling or unable to create a definitive style or mode; but his originality is evident, a shifting feisty Energy informs almost everything he writes, and that career is still young.") This might have limited his readership, however he was much respected by his fellow Writers, editors, critics and fans. Robert Jordan, Ford's lifelong close friend, called Ford "the best Writer in America – bar none." Neil Gaiman called Ford "my best critic … the best Writer I knew." Patrick Nielsen Hayden said "Most normal people had the slight sense that something large and super-intelligent and trans-human had sort of flown over ... There would be a point where basically the plot would become so knotted and complex he would lose all of us."

2001

Ford also contributed to The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time (2001, Tor Books, ISBN 0-312-86936-3), drawing some of the maps.

2006

Ford suffered from complications related to diabetes since childhood and also had renal dysfunction which required dialysis and, in 2000, a kidney transplant, which improved his quality of life considerably. He was found dead from natural causes in his Minneapolis home on September 25, 2006, by his partner since the mid-1990s, Elise Matthesen. He was a prominent member of the Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library, which established a John M. Ford Book Endowment after his death with the donations to be used as interest-generating capital for yearly purchase of new books.

2013

Though Ford's novels varied in setting and style, several were of the Bildungsroman (coming-of-age) type: in Web of Angels, The Final Reflection, Princes of the Air, Growing Up Weightless, and The Last Hot Time, Ford wrote variations on the theme of growing up, learning about one's world and one's place in it, and taking responsibility for it – which involves taking on the power and wisdom to influence events, to help make the world a better place.