MORTY SHALLMAN was born on the West Coast of Illinois and studied creative writing at the University of Chicago. A singer, songwriter, and novelist, he 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). 

In 2018, Morty was the #1 Indie Recording Artist in LA (Reverbnation.com). His forthcoming novel, The Tyranny of Desire is “a fast-paced phantasmagoric satire of a debauched contemporary LA, brilliantly written and very funny,” (Robert Grossmith, author of The Empire of Lights), and his novel-in-progress, War and Sex, was shortlisted for a Faulkner-Wisdom Prize. Morty is an AWAL recording artist and a member of NARAS (The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences) and the Author’s Guild. Morty currently lives in Los Angeles with his dog, Primo the Maltese.