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Alan Baxter was born on 18 April, 1970 in Sussex, United Kingdom, is a British-Australian author. Discover Alan Baxter's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 53 years old?
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Writer, martial artist, personal trainer |
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53 years old |
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Aries |
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18 April, 1970 |
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18 April |
| Birthplace |
Sussex, United Kingdom |
| Nationality |
United Kingdom
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Alan Baxter Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Alan Baxter Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Alan Baxter worth at the age of 53 years old? Alan Baxter’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. He is from United Kingdom. We have estimated Alan Baxter's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Alan Richard Baxter (born 18 April 1970, Sussex, United Kingdom) is a British-Australian author of supernatural thrillers, horror and dark fantasy, and a teacher and practitioner of kung fu and qi gong.
He has published several novels, novellas, collections, and over 100 short stories.
He has also co-written several novels with American action-adventure author, David Wood.
He has won four Australian Shadows Awards and one Aurealis Award.
Baxter was born in 1970 in Crawley, Sussex, UK.
In 1996 he won the British Wutan Federation National Championship title in the UK.
Baxter is married to Glover Prize-winning Australian artist, Halinka Orszulok.
Baxter’s writing accolades include being an thirteen-time finalist in the Aurealis Awards, an eight-time finalist in the Australian Shadows Awards and a fourteen-time finalist in the Ditmar Awards.
At the age of 7, his family moved to Surrey where Baxter remained until emigrating to Australia permanently in 1999 after 2 years of world travel.
His earliest writing was an infamous short story in school, aged 7.
His interest in speculative and genre fiction persisted from childhood into adulthood.
He maintains that everyone reads speculative fiction as children, but at some point some people choose to stop.
Drawn especially to dark fiction and horror, Baxter cites among his influences people such as Clive Barker, H P Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Kaaron Warren, and Stephen King.
Baxter has also cited comic books as being big influences on his work, in particular work like Garth Ennis’s “Hellblazer” and Neil Gaiman’s “Sandman”.
Baxter’s dark urban horror thrillers often feature realistic violence, often gleaned from first-hand experience, the author having spent a lifetime training and teaching martial arts.
Baxter has often expressed his love of mashing genres and writing across formats.
His work regularly addresses themes of death and mortality, and the justices and injustices in life.
Aside from writing, the other main professional focus of Baxter’s life has been martial arts.
He says that running up against bullies in school drove him towards competitive martial arts in his childhood, and that he found a lifelong path there.
After studying a variety of arts, he is now a practitioner and teacher of Choy Lee Fut Kung Fu.
He runs the Illawarra Kung Fu Academy and is an international master and Fire Dragon Disciple of Grandmaster Chen Yong Fa.
Baxter has competed in a number of competitions in the UK, Australia, and China.
He won the 2014 Australian Shadows Award for Best Short Story (“Shadows of the Lonely Dead”), the 2015 Australian Shadows Paul Haines Award For Long Fiction (“In Vaulted Halls Entombed”), the 2016 Australian Shadows Award for Best Collection (Crow Shine), and the 2019 Australian Shadows Award for Best Collection (Served Cold).
He is also a past winner of the AHWA Short Story Competition (“It’s Always the Children Who Suffer”).
Alan’s 2015 Australian Shadows Paul Haines Award-winning story, “In Vaulted Halls Entombed”, was adapted for Season 3 of the Netflix Original Series, Love, Death & Robots.
Alan’s work has made the Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards three times (Crow Shine, 2016 Bram Stoker Award (TM) for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection, The Gulp 2021 Bram Stoker Award (TM) for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection, and Sallow Bend 2022 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel).
From November 2020 to November 2023, Baxter was President of the Australasian Horror Writers Association.
He’s also a Full Active Member of the US-based Horror Writer’s Association.
