George Alec Effinger was born on January 10, 1947, in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The greatest successes came for George Alec Effinger in the ’80s, particularly the Marîd Audran series, with the protagonist who operates in the Budayeen, a district in a Middle Eastern city heavily inspired by the New Orleans French Quarter with plenty of transsexuals, transvestites, and more. The stories also have strong cyberpunk influences with characters that have cybernetic implants of various kinds.
Throughout his life, George Alec Effinger suffered serious health problems that in the ’90s became too serious for him to continue with his work as a writer. The growth of medical costs led him at one point to his inability to pay for the cures. One of the gastric ulcers he suffered from caused internal bleeding which caused his death on April 27, 2002.