Amazon #1 Bestselling Author MORTY SHALLMAN was born on the West Coast of Illinois and studied creative writing at the University of Chicago. His groundbreaking sexistential novel, The Tyranny of Desire (2023), was the #1 New Dark Comedy Release and the #1 Bestselling 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 (2024), was Amazon’s #1 New Release in Popular Culture and reached #3 in Political Humor. It was also shortlisted for the prestigious Faulkner-Wisdom Prize in Literature.

In addition to writing novels and screenplays, Morty is an accomplished singer-songwriter and recording artist with dozens of worldwide releases. He was voted the #1 Indie Artist in LA by Reverbnation.com (2018) on the strength of his hit single, “Freak,” and is the creator of Literary Pop, an artistic genre characterized by unique mashups of pop music and literary fiction. Morty’s seminal works of Literary Pop include Love’s Oblivion, A Novel in Twelve Pop Songs (2002), Last of the Zachary’s, A Novel with Songs (2010), and Pop Fiction, An Indie-Noir Musical Thriller (2017).

Morty is an AWAL recording artist and a voting member of The Recording Academy, The Author’s Guild, and The Greater Los Angeles Writers Society. He currently lives in Valley Village, California, where he continues his work as a novelist, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, publisher, and producer.