Chris Claremont

Christopher S. Chris Claremont is a Britishborn American comic book writer and novelist, known for his 19751991 stint on Uncanny XMen, far longer than that of any other writer, during which he is credited with developing strong female characters as well as introducing complex literary themes into superhero narratives, turning the once underachieving comic into one of Marvels most popular series.

Claremont was born November 25, 1950 in London, England, the son of an internist father and a pilotcaterer mother. His family moved to the United States when he was three, and he was raised primarily on Long Island. Alienated by the sportsoriented suburbs, his grandmother purchased for him a subscription to Eagle when he was a child, and he grew up reading Dan Dare, finding them more exciting than the Batman and Superman comics of the 1950s and early 1960s. He read works by science fiction writers such as Robert Heinlein, as well as writers of other genres such as Rudyard Kipling and C. S. Forester. Claremont is Jewish on his mothers side, and lived on an Israeli kibbutz during his youth.

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