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He lived most of his life in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He did not start to write until the 1960s but then produced more than 200 short stories and 21 novels, mostly at least nominally science fiction. His first published story was "The Wagons" in New Mexico Quarterly Review ( 1959), and his first published novel was Past Master ( 1968).
Until 1971, Lafferty worked as an electrical engineer. After that, he spent his time writing until 1984, when he retired from that activity as well. Part of the reason for his retirement from writing was Alzheimer's Disease.
Lafferty's quirky proseProse is any writing without a formal structure of meter or rhyme only conforming to the basic rules of grammar, just as it is plainly spoken by people. Writing which uses these structures is known as poetry. Although some works of prose may contain trace drew from traditional storytellingStorytelling is the art of portraying in words, images, and sounds what has happened in real or imagined events. The oldest forms of storytelling were oral. Later, stories could be conveyed by sculptures or writings on stone, wood, or parchment. Modern te, both IrishThe island of Ireland ire in Irish, Airlann in Ulster Scots) is the third-largest island in Europe. It lies on the west side of the Irish Sea, close to the island of Great Britain. It is composed of the Republic of Ireland in the south and Northern Irelan and Native AmericanNative Americans (also Indians Aboriginal Peoples American Indians First Nations Alaskan Natives or Indigenous Peoples of America are the indigenous inhabitants of Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. This term compri, and his shaggy characters and tall tales are unique in science fiction.
Little of Lafferty's writing is considered typical of the genre. His stories are more tall taleA tall tale is a story that claims to explain the reason for some natural phenomenon, or sometimes illustrates how skilled/intelligent/powerful the subject of the tale was. In either case, the tall tale is fictional, and usually obviously so. Very often, than traditional science fiction and are deeply influenced by his conservative CatholicGeneral meaning Catholic means universal or whole''. With respect to the Christian Church, the early Christians used the term to refer to the whole undivided church. It is in that sense that all Christians today claim ownership of the term, including Prot beliefs. In any event, his writings, both topically and stylistically, are not easy to categorize. Plot is frequently secondary to anything else Lafferty does in his stories, which has caused him to have both a loyal cultThis article discusses only religious or sociological cultist groups, and small or new religious groups considered harmful or strange by the public, media or anti-cult activists. This article does not discuss "cult" in its original sense of "religious pra following and readers who have given up attempting to read his work.
Lafferty received Hugo nominations for Past Master, "Continued on the Next Rock," "Sky," and "Eurema's Dam," the last of which won the Best Short Story Hugo in 1973 (shared with Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth's "The Meeting.")
He received Nebula Award nominations for "Slow Tuesday Night," Past Master, Fourth Mansions, "Continued on the Next Rock," and The Devil is Dead. He never received a Nebula Award.
His collection Lafferty in Orbit was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, and in 1990, Lafferty received a World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Not all of Lafferty's work was science fiction or fantasy; his novel Okla Hannali tells the story of the Choctaw in Mississippi and Oklahoma.
Lafferty served for four years in the U.S. Army during World War II, in the South Pacific. He never married.
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