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MORTY SHALLMAN was born on the West Coast of Illinois and studied creative writing at the University of Chicago. A novelist, singer, and songwriter, he created Literary Pop, an artistic genre defined by unique mashups of pop music and literary fiction. Morty’s seminal Literary Pop works include Love’s Oblivion, A Novel in Twelve Pop Songs (2002), Pop Fiction, An Indie-Noir Musical Thriller (2017), and Last of the Zacharys: A Musical Novel (2026).
Morty’s novel, The Tyranny of Desire, was the #1 New Dark Comedy Release and the #1 Best-Selling Absurdist novel on Amazon. It has been praised as “A Comedic Masterpiece” by Readers’ Favorite, and as a “ribald and incisive provocation” by Booklife. His latest novel, War and Sex, was shortlisted for a Faulkner-Wisdom Prize and was an Amazon #1 New Release and Top 10 seller in Political Humor. Morty is an AWAL recording artist and a voting member of the Recording Academy, The Authors Guild, The Audio Publishers Association, and The Greater Los Angeles Writers Society (GLAWS). Morty currently lives in Los Angeles, where he continues to explore the nexus of literature and music.
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