Strieber's personal publishing company, Walker & Collier, is named after two characters in Catmagic. In the 1987 paperback edition, Strieber states that Jonathan Barry is fictitious and that he is the sole author of Catmagic. In 1986, Strieber's fantasy novel Catmagic was published with co-authorship credited to Jonathan Barry, who was billed as an aerospace industry consultant and a practicing witch. He independently authored Wolf of Shadows (1985), a young adult novel set in the aftermath of a nuclear war. Collaborating with James Kunetka, he wrote Warday (1984), about the dangers of limited nuclear warfare, and Nature's End (1986), a novel about environmental apocalypse. Strieber then turned to speculative fiction with social conscience.

Strieber began his career as a novelist with the horror novels The Wolfen (1978) and The Hunger (1981), both of which were made into feature films, followed by the less successful horror novels Black Magic (1982) and The Night Church (1983). He then worked for several advertising firms in New York City, rising to the level of vice president before leaving in 1977 to pursue a writing career. He was educated at the University of Texas at Austin and the London School of Film Technique, graduating from each in 1968. He attended Central Catholic High School in San Antonio, Texas. Strieber was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Kathleen Mary (Drought) and Karl Strieber, a lawyer. He has maintained a dual career of author of fiction and advocate of paranormal concepts through his best-selling non-fiction books, his Unknown Country web site, and his podcast, Dreamland.

Louis Whitley Strieber ( / ˈ s t r iː b ər/ born June 13, 1945) is an American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion, a non-fiction account of his alleged experiences with non-human entities. His website,, is among the largest in the world dealing with paranormal phenomena and his podcast, Dreamland, has been produced weekly for twenty years.Social science fiction, Ufology, Horror novels Many people have encountered the visitors with Whitley, placing it among the most witnessed paranormal events in history. When he eventually realized that the experience could not be attributed to known factors, he began making an effort to recontact what he calls “the visitors.” The response has been ongoing for the past thirty years, and has been chronicled in Communion, Transformation, Majestic, and now A New World. It led to the writing of the epic bestseller Communion that changed the way the world thinks about this enigmatic experience. In 1985, Whitley had a close encounter of the third kind. His sci-fi series Alien Hunter became the SyFy Channel series Hunters. His books The Wolfen, The Hunger, Communion, and The Coming Global Superstorm (as The Day After Tomorrow) were all made into feature films. Whitley Strieber is the author of over forty works of both fiction and nonfiction.

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