Overview
- Simmons died on February 21 in Longmont, Colorado, with his wife Karen and daughter Jane at his side, according to his obituary.
- Multiple outlets and fellow author David Morrell reported a stroke as the cause of death.
- The obituary lists survivors as his wife and daughter, grandchildren Milo and Lucia Glenn, and his brother Wayne, with ashes to be scattered and a celebration of life pending.
- A former elementary school teacher, he won early acclaim with Song of Kali and later earned a Hugo Award for 1989’s Hyperion, the first book in a four-part series.
- His cross-genre work included The Terror, adapted by AMC in 2018, and coverage notes a discrepancy over his output, with the obituary citing 31 books versus other reports of more than three dozen.