Уитли Стрибер (Louis Whitley Strieber) - американский писатель в жанре ужасов, родился 13 июня 1945 года в Сан-Антонио (штат Техас) в семье Карла и Мэри Стрибер. В 1968 получил степень бакалавра в Техасском Университете в Остине. В том же году получил сертификат Лондонской школы производства фильмов (London School of Film Technique). В 1970 году женился на Энн Мэтокс (Anne Mattocks). В 1968-1970 годах работал менеджером по работе со СМИ, потом c 1970 по 1974 — менеджером по работе к клиентами (с клиентскими счетами) в нескольких фирмах, с 1974 по 1977 — старшим менеджером и вице-президентом в «Cunningham & Walsh Advertising». С 1977 года — профессиональный писатель. Strieber was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Karl Strieber, a lawyer and Mary Drought Strieber. He attended Central Catholic Marianist High School in San Antonio, Texas. He was educated at the University of Texas at Austin and the London School of Film Technique, graduating from each in 1968. He then worked for several advertising firms in New York City, rising to the level of vice president before leaving in 1977 to pursue a writing career. Whitley Streiber is currently a practicing Catholic. He was also formerly associated with the Gurdjieff Foundation. He left the Foundation shortly before the experiences reported in Communion but remains interested in the mystical teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky and makes frequent references to them in his non-fiction writings. Strieber is married to Anne Strieber. They have a son, Andrew, an internet content producer, who appears in Communion and several of Strieber's novels (for example, Warday).
