Please answer the following question: Facts:   - genre: fantasy      - birth date: 1960    - name: john c. hocking    - occupation: novelist , short story author    - magnum opus: '' conan and the emerald lotus ''   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of john c. hocking .
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john c. hocking -lrb- born 1960 -rrb- is an american fantasy writer , the author of a conan novel published by tor books and a number of short stories .one of his stories , `` the face in the sea '' , won the 2009 harper 's pen award for sword and sorcery fiction .