Early life
Whitley Strieber was natural within San Antonio, Texas, the boy of Karl Strieber, the easily-to-well-fixed lawyer, and Mary Drought Strieber. He was educated at a University of Texas and the London School of Film Technique, graduating from two around 1968. He so worked for many different advertising firms in New York City, rising to the level of vice president before quitting within 1977 to get the yours free!-mercenary writer.

Fiction
Strieber began his career as a novelist sustaining a horror classics The Wolfen (1978) and The Hunger (1981), both of which were late processed into flick, followed per less successful horror novels Black Magic (1982) and A Nighttime Church (1983).

He so turned to supplementary good speculative fiction. He wrote Warday (1984), a New York Times bestseller about a dangers of limited nuclear war, and ''Nature and severity's Prevent (1986), a prophetical novel all about environmental apocalypse, each together by owning longtime friend James Kunetka. He is likewise andy skinner Wolf of Shadows'' (1985), a immature adult novel just about nuclear winter.

Around 1986, Strieber's fantasy novel Catmagic was published, co-authored using Jonathan Barry, world health organization was billed as an aerospace industry advisor & the practicing witch. In the 1987 paperbacked edition, Strieber states that Jonathan Barry is fictitious & that he, Strieber, is the resole creator of Catmagic. Strieber's personalized publishing firm, Walker & Collier, is known as when ii of the characters around Catmagic.

Late, less successful thrillers by Strieber (tons currently away from print) include Billy (1990), The Untamed (1991), Unholy Fire (1992), and A Forbidden Zone (1993).

Around recent years he returned to the lamia saga that began sustaining A Hunger, adding A Previous Lamia (2001) and ''Lilith's Dream (2002) to the storyline.

Communion and the visitors
In December 26, 1985, Strieber reportedly had an own experience where he thought he was abducted from either his cabinside in upstate Just released York by non-person beings of a bit of variety. He wrote just about these lives within his foremost non-nonfictional prose book, a right-selling Communion (1987). Communion is usually interpreted as a claim of alien abduction, but Strieber says that he draws there are no firmly conclusions just about a nature and severity or even source of his own experience. He refers to a beings when "the visitors," a title chosen to exist when when neutral as imaginable, & leaves open the possibility that it is non extraterrestrials and even that it survive exclusively within his mind. He has repeatedly expressed his frustration using what he feels come todays claims incorrectly attributed to him.

Strieber went in to write trine further books all about his lives by owning a visitant, Transformation (1988), Breakthrough (1995), and A Secret School'' (1996). Every was commercially less successful than a previous, & tons ternion come okay, away from print. More visitor-themed books of Strieber's include Majestic (1989), a novel all about a Roswell UFO incident; The Communion Letters (1997, reissued in 2003), a collection of letters from either readers reportage lives similar to Strieber's; & Confirmation (1998), a non-nonfictional prose book presenting reputed grounds to believe for the reality of UFOs and abductions. An forthcoming novel, A Grays (2006), will convey his accumulative noesis, case, & impressions of alien email across the invented narration.

Strieber wrote a screenplay for the 1989 movie Communion, directed by Philippe Mora and starring Christopher Walken as Whitley Strieber. A film covers poop from either two Communion & Transformation & introduces a bit of recently themes non present in the books.

The Master of the Key
In the pre-dawn hours of June 6, 1998, Strieber was reportedly visited in his Toronto hotel room by a mysterious however apparently mortal human world health organization delivered an unasked lecture covering various cases from either spirituality to the environment. A human gave there is no title, however Strieber hwhen taken to on to him as the "Master of the Key." Strieber foremost reported the visit witharound his on the net journal around 1998 & in the future gave a further complete account in his self-published book A Key (2001). Doubter own pointed out that A Key & a 1998 journal entries give super different (non contradictory, however largely non-overlapping) accounts of what a human said. Strieber has mentioned his have misgivings just about a truth of The Key, admitting a possibility that he manufactured it wholly higher. [http://www.unknowncountry.com/journal/?id=194]

Prior to publishing A Key, Strieber co-authored The Coming Global Superstorm (1999), a book all about a possibility of rapid & destructive global climate change, by using Art Bell. He has said that it was depending largely in items the Master of the Key got told him all about the epa. A book served when a inspiration for the disaster film The Day After Tomorrow (2004), and Strieber afterwards wrote the novelisation of that pic.

A second recent book Strieber says was inspired per teachings of the Master of the Key is the self-published A Path (2002), which deals with a symbolism of the Tarot of Marseilles.

Personal
Whitley Strieber occurs as Roman Catholic and was formerly associated by using a Gurdjieff Foundation. He left a Foundation shortly prior to a lives reported inside Communion, however remains concerned in the orphic teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky and makes frequent references to them in his non-fiction writings.

Strieber is married to Anne Strieber, a previous teacher & andy skinner of the thriller An Invisible Woman (2005). It have a boy, Andrew, world health organization appears around Communion & Strieber's more close-encounter books.