Kafka, Franz
1883-1924
Czechoslovakian author of surrealistic fiction

Recommended Reading: "The Metamorphosis" (1916), a surreal novella about a man who wakes up one morning to discover he has become an insect.

Kelly, James Patrick
1951--
American author

Kessel, John
1950--
American

Keyes, Daniel
1927--
American; professor emeritus of English at Ohio University

Recommended Reading: "Flowers for Algernon" (1959), later novelized; it won a Hugo as a short story and a Nebula as a novel and was filmed as Charly

King, Stephen
1947--
American

Though King is known mostly as a horror writer, his books sometimes straddle science fiction and he has written fantasy.

Recommended Reading:

• The Dead Zone (1979)
• Firestarter (1980)
• The Stand (1978; restored 1990)
• Eyes of the Dragon (1984) , a fairy tale.
• Lisey's Story (2006)

See also Richard Bachman, a pseudonym King used to publish some of his early works.

Knight, Damon
1922-2002
b. Baker, Oregon

Writer. editor, and critic
Member of the Futurians
Founder of the Science Fiction Writers of America and its first president
Co-founder of the Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference
Named Grand Master by the SFWA in 1995

Recommended Reading:

• In Search of Wonder (1967), a nonfiction collection of his early reviews
• "To Serve Man" (1950)

Kornbluth, Cyril
1923-58
American author
Member of the Futurians

Recommended Reading:

• "The Little Black Bag" (1950)
• "The Marching Morons" (1951)

Kress, Nancy
1948--
American

Recommended Reading:

• "Out of All Them Bright Stars" (1985)
• Beggars in Spain (novella, 1991; novel 1992)

Kuttner, Henry
1914-1958
American

Published stories and novels under his own name and also under pseudonyms, especially in collaboration with his wife, Catherine L. Moore

See also Laurence O'Donnell and Lewis Padgett