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William Shunn : Science Fiction Writer
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Bill Shunn was born Donald William Shunn II in Los Angeles in 1967. He was the first of eight children in a devout Mormon family and was raised to expect to serve as a missionary when he became old enough. His early interests included astronomy, geology, paleontology, and other natural sciences. At the age of six he won a Halloween short story contest in his first-grade class and realized he wanted to be a writer.
That same year his family moved from California to Utah, where they lived in several small towns before finally settling in Kaysville in 1978. Bill commenced seven years of classical piano study around that time, and played clarinet in school bands. Some of his early stories appeared in his junior
high school literary magazine, and at the age of fifteen he became serious about trying to sell his work to the professional science fiction magazines of the day. In his senior year at Davis High School, during his tenure as co-editor of the school newspaper, he scored his first extramural publication, placing the story "Cut Without Hands" in a small-press anthology of science fiction by and for Mormons, LDSF-2.
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