Paul Barnett is a recent arrival in the USA from the UK, where he was for nearly twenty years a freelance editor and writer, before that spending about a dozen years as a commissioning editor and/or editorial director for various publishers.

As a writer, mainly under the name John Grant, he has published over fifty books, of which about half are fiction, mostly fantasy but with some sf.

Among his nonfiction books are Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters, currently in its third edition and regarded as the standard work in the field; The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, with John Clute, for which he received the Hugo, World Fantasy, Locus, Eaton and Mythopoeic Society Scholarship awards; and The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Science Fiction Art Techniques, with Ron Tiner. He was Technical Editor (project manager/managing editor/text editor) of the Clute/Nicholls Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, for which work he received a rare British Science Fiction Association Special Award. He wrote the cinema section of David Pringle's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, and contributed essays to Pringle's St James Guide to Fantasy Writers. He has worked on books by Iain Banks, Terry Pratchett, Arthur C. Clarke, Diana Wynne Jones, David Langford, Steve Gallagher, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes, Ken McLeod, Robert Jordan, Kelly Freas and many others; among recent editorial jobs has been the Gangsters volume of Phil Hardy's Aurum Film Encyclopedia/Overlook Film Encyclopedia. His book reviews have appeared in scholarly journals such as Foundation and Extrapolation as well as in popular magazines like Samhain, Film Animation News and SFX, and his short stories in various anthologies and magazines. He is currently writing a series of online articles on futurology for AOL.

He is also Commissioning Editor of Paper Tiger, the world's best-known publisher of fantasy/sf art books.

Available
Guts (with David Langford)
Qinmeartha & the Girl-Child LoChi (bound with The Tomb of the Old Ones by Colin Wilson)