T.E.D. Klein is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Monster, Alice in Zombieland, and The Darkling. He was born in Johannesburg (South Africa), where he attended the University of the Witwatersrand, graduating in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. From 1975 to 1982, he worked as an editor at Random House in New York City before moving to London in 1982 to work for Macmillan Publishers
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While living in London, Klein wrote his first novel, Monster (Pocket Books), which was published under his own name in 1986 and became an international bestseller. He then moved to San Diego in 1989 where he served as writer-in-residence at the University of California, San Diego. During that time he also edited Darken Star Press and wrote his second novel, Alice in Zombieland (Pocket Books).
The book was published under his pseudonym T. E. D.
Klein and became a national bestseller when it was released in 1991. Since then Klein has continued to write under various pseudonyms for various publishers around the world including "Cheryl O'Grady" for Harlequin Enterprises Ltd., "Tommy Gavin" for HarperCollins Voyager/HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., and "Viktor E Frankl" for Waveland Press Inc., among others.