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Piers Anthony
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Piers AnthonyFew authors have risen to the level of success of Piers Anthony. In his over quarter-century career, he has written martial arts action novels, fantasy, science fiction, space opera, post-apocalyptic adventure, horror, erotica?it's almost easier to enumerate the few categories that Piers Anthony hasn't written in! His total number of books is well into three digits now, making him one of the most prolific authors in the science-fiction/fantasy field (indeed, any field) as well as one of the most successful.

His first Xanth novel, A Spell for Chameleon, won the British August Derleth Fantasy award for 1977. His novel Ogre, Ogre may have been the first original fantasy paperback ever to make the New York Times bestseller list, and all his fantasies since then have been bestsellers. Translations of Piers' novels have appeared in over ten different languages.
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Robert Asprin
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Robert AsprinBorn in 1946, Robert Lynn Asprin is a first generation American of Philippine-Irish descent. Raised in the university town of Ann Arbor, Michigan, he was exposed to a wide range of bookstores, museums, and cultures from an early age. Attending the University of Michigan and enlisting in the Army during the stormy and controversial Vietnam era of the sixties only served to enhance his awareness and appreciation of diversity, and working his way through the accounting department of a small subsidiary of the Xerox corporation for twelve years prior to becoming a full-time writer provided the finishing touches to his unique view of the people around him.

Robert has two children, Annette and Daniel. His interests are many and varied, ranging from fencing and music to tropical fish and needlework. He claims to have been at one time or another a fencing coach, a Mongol warlord, a Klingon, a cost accountant and a deep space mercenary. Scholars of the genre consider this biography to be highly fictional, due to the fact that the fourth named would be grounds for arrest anywhere in the civilized universe. He is also the editor, with his wife, Lynn Abbey, of the best selling 'Thieves' World' anthology series.

Robert Asprin is currently living in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Marion Zimmer BradleyMarion Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Mrs. Bradley received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67.

She was a science fiction/fantasy fan from her middle teens, and made her first sale as an adjunct to an amateur fiction contest in FANTASTIC/AMAZING STORIES in 1949. She had written as long as she could remember, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to VORTEX SCIENCE FICTION. She wrote everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels.

In addition to her novels, Mrs. Bradley edited many magazines, amateur and professional, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's FANTASY Magazine, which she started in 1988. She also edited an annual anthology called SWORD AND SORCERESS for DAW Books.

Over the years she turned more to fantasy; THE HOUSE BETWEEN THE WORLDS, although a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club, was 'fantasy undiluted'. She wrote a novel of the women in the Arthurian legends -- Morgan Le Fay, the Lady of the Lake, and others -- entitled MISTS OF AVALON, which made the NY Times best seller list both in hardcover and trade paperback, and she also wrote THE FIREBRAND, a novel about the women of the Trojan War. Her historical fantasy novels, THE FOREST HOUSE and LADY OF AVALON are prequels to MISTS OF AVALON.

She died in Berkeley, California on September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack. She was survived by her brother, Leslie Zimmer; her sons, David Bradley and Patrick Breen; her daughter, Moira Stern; and her grandchildren.
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Terry Brooks
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Terry BrooksTerry Brooks was born on January 8, 1944. He grew up in the town of Sterling, Illinois. His father was a printing company owner, and his mother stayed at home. He earned an undergraduate degree in English literature at Hamilton College in 1966 and later attended the School of Law at Washington & Lee University to eventually earn a graduate degree.

Although he had been a writer since high school, he began working on The Sword of Shannara in law school. His first novel was The Sword of Shannara, written in 1974 and was first submitted to D&A Books, and while it was not what they were looking for at the time, they suggested Ballantine Books might be interested.

Lester del Rey, the new Fantasy Editor at Ballantine, was launching a new SF/Fantasy imprint. When he came accross Terry's book, Lester said that is was "the best fantasy since [J.R.R.] Tolkien" and published it in 1977. The Sword of Shannara became the first fantasy trade paperback to break onto the New York Times Bestseller List. Brooks has been on the bestseller list ever since.
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C. J. Cherryh
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C. J. CherryhFrom the author:

I write full time; I travel; I try out things. The list includes, both past tense: fencing, riding, archery, firearms, ancient weapons, donkeys, elephants, camels, butterflies, frogs, wasps, turtles, bees, ants, falconry, exotic swamp plants and tropicals, wilderness survival, fishing, sailing, mechanics, carpentry, wiring, painting (canvas), painting (house), painting (interior), sculpture, needlepoint, refinishing furntiture, video games, archaeology, Roman, Greek civ, Crete, Celts, caves.

I've traveled from New York to Istanbul and Troy; outrun a dog pack, and seen Columbia lift on her first flight. I've fallen down a cave, nearly drowned, broken an arm, been kicked by horses, fended off an amorous merchant in a tent bazaar, fought fires, slept on deck in the Adriatic, and driven Picadilly Circus at rush hour. I've waded in two oceans and four of the seven seas, and I want to visit the Amazon, the Serengeti, and see the volcano in Antarctica.

I see this planet as part of the whole universe: I'm stuck on it a while, and until I get the chance to get off it---I want to do a flyby of Mars and take a look at Nix Olympica and the Vallis Marinaris, personally; and I want to see Titan and Saturn's rings and the Red Spot on Jupiter---but til that day I don't plan to neglect where I am either, and keeping a constantly updated list of wonders this planet has to see.
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L. Sprague De Camp
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L. Sprague De CampL. Sprague de Camp, born in New York City and educated there, in the South, and in California, received his BS in Aeronautical Engineering from Cal Tech in 1930 and earned his MS from Stevens Institute three years later. He served as a Lieutenant Commander in the US Naval Reserve in WWII. For the last half-century, he has spent his life pounding a hot typewriter, first in Suburban Philadelphia and then in Texas. Now author of over 120 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books and several hundred short stories, he is also well-known for many non-fiction works in history, science, and biography.

Among his numerous awards is The Gandalf, the Grand Master Award for Lifetime Achievement in Fantasy, presented in 1976. Two years later Sprague received from the Science Fiction Writers of America their Grand Master Nebula Award.

Among de Camp's important non-fiction works are: The Ancient Engineers, Great Cities of the Ancient World, The Day of the Dinosaur, Darwin and his Great Discovery, The Great Monkey Trial (The Scopes Evolution Trial), and comprehensive biographies of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard titled HP Lovecraft and Dark Valley Destiny respectively.

Sprague de Camp speaks several languages and has traveled world-wide to get material for his books.

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Stephen Donaldson
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Stephen Donaldson Born in 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio, Stephen R. Donaldson lived in India (where his father was a medical missionary) until 1963. He graduated from the College of Wooster (Ohio) in 1968, served two years as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, doing hospital work in Akron, then attended Kent State University, where he received his M.A. in English in 1971.

After dropping out of his Ph.D. program and moving to New Jersey in order to write fiction, Donaldson made his publishing debut with the first Covenant trilogy in 1977. That enabled him to move to a healthier climate. He now lives in New Mexico.

The novels for which he is best known have received a number of awards. However, the achievements of which he is most proud are the ones that seemed the most unlikely. In 1993 he received a Doctor of Literature degree from the College of Wooster, and in 1994 he gained a black belt in Shotokan karate from Sensei Mike Heister and Anshin Personal Defense.

After completing the five-book, seven-year Gap sequence of science fiction novels, Donaldson spent quite some time on vacation. However, he has now returned to work. His most recent book prior to The Man Who Fought Alone was a second collection of short fiction, Reave the Just and Other Tales. He is currently hard at work on The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
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Dave Duncan
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Dave DuncanOriginally from Scotland, Dave Duncan has lived all his adult life in Western Canada, having enjoyed a long career as a petroleum geologist before taking up writing. Since discovering that imaginary worlds are more satisfying than the real one, he has published more than thirty novels, mostly in the fantasy genre, but also young adult, science fiction, and historical. He has at times been Sarah B. Franklin (but only for literary purposes) and Ken Hood (which is short for D'ye Ken Whodunit?).

His most successful works have been the fantasy series, A Man of His Word and its sequel, A Handful of Men, and two series featuring swordsmen: The Seventh Sword, and Tales of the King's Blades. His latest novel, Paragon Lost, launches a new trilogy, Chronicles of the King's Blades.

He and Janet were married in 1959. They have one son and two daughters, who in turn are responsible for a spinoff series of four grandchildren. Dave spends winters in Victoria, B.C., and the rest of the time in Calgary, Alberta.
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David Eddings
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David EddingsDavid Eddings was born in the year 1931, in Spokane, Washington. He grew up just outside of Seattle and studied at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He also attended a university within the state of Washington. He has lived in several places within the States, but now resides in Carson City, Nevada, with his wife Leigh, who has contributed to the success of his books greatly. In the past, he served in the army, taught college-level English, and worked as purchaser for Boeing Aircraft. He penned his first novel High Hunt, in 1973. His big break however, came in 1984, with his novel The Belgariad.
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Steven Erikson
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Steven EriksonAn archaeologist and anthropologist, and a graduate of the Iowa Writers? Workshop, Steven Erikson recently returned to Canada after a number of years in the UK and now lives in Winnipeg. His first fantasy novel, Gardens of the Moon, was shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award and the second, Deadhouse Gates, was voted 'one of the 10 best fantasy novels of the year'.
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Raymond E. Feist
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Raymond E. FeistA Southern Californian by birth and a San Diegan by choice, Raymond holds a B.A. in Communication Arts (with honors) from UCSD. Now at least four times on the New York Times Bestseller List, he is the author of the three books in the Riftwar Saga (Magician, Silverthorn, A Darkness at Sethanon), and Daughter of the Empire, Servant of the Empire and Mistress of the Empire with Janny Wurts, exploring the Riftwar -- quite excellently! -- from the Tsurani viewpoint on the other side of the Rift.

He has also written Prince of the Blood and The King's Buccaneer, two intermediate books linking the Riftwar with the Serpentwar Saga, which is now ongoing. The latest in the series, Rage of the Demon King, is currently adding another bestseller plume to Ray's cap. Ray's also been critically lauded for Faerie Tale, a dark fantasy set in contemporary America.

He lives with novelist Kathlyn Starbuck, his wife; their growing family includes one child and two cats. Their hobbies include collecting movies, fine wine, illustrations and riding Big John's Lady (a thoroughbred bay mare) and Stetson (an Andalusian/quarterhorse paint gelding), and raising Superstition (a thoroughbred filly).
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David Gemmell
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David GemmellDavid Gemmell was born in London, England 1948. At the age of 16 he was expelled from school for organizing a gambling syndicate. He then became a labourer and later a free lance journalist.

By night he worked as a bouncer making extra money. His first book was Legend, published in 1984. Since then he has writen a great number of books, working his way up to the top of current fantasy.
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Terry Goodkind
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Terry GoodkindTerry Goodkind's first novel, Wizard's First Rule (1994), established him immediately as a major voice on the epic fantasy scene. Subsequent books in the Sword of Truth series have climbed steadily up the national bestseller lists.

The saga of The Sword of Truth started growing in Goodkind's mind during the early 1990s, while he was building his house in the forests of the northeastern U.S. 'It started with the character of Kahlan, and grew from that seed,' he recalls. 'It really became a haunting experience. As soon as I started writing Wizard's First Rule, I knew writing was my calling. I've found something to which I truly want to dedicate my life.'

Goodkind was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, where he also attended art school, one of his many interests on the way to becoming a writer. Besides a career in wildlife art, he has been a cabinet maker, violin maker, and he has done restoration work on rare and exotic artifacts from around the world ? each with its own story to tell, he says. In 1983 Goodkind moved to the forested mountains he loves. There, in the woods near the ocean, he built the house where he and his wife, Jeri, live, and came at last to tell his own stories.
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Robin Hobb
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Robin HobbRobin Hobb was born in California in 1952, and majored in Communications at Denver University, Colorado, and she now lives outside Seattle. Robin Hobb has also been writing books under the pseudonym Megan Lindholm, her real name though is Margaret Alice Lindholm Ogden., Robin Hobb was born in California in 1952, and majored in Communications at Denver University, Colorado, and she now lives outside Seattle. Robin Hobb has also been writing books under the pseudonym Megan Lindholm, her real name though is Margaret Alice Lindholm Ogden.
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Robert Jordan
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Robert JordanRobert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina, where he now lives with his wife, Harriet, in a house built in 1797. He taught himself to read when he was four with the incidental aid of a twelve-years-older brother, and was tackling Mark Twain and Jules Verne by five. He is a graduate of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Army; among his decorations are the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star with "V", and two Vietnamese Crosses of Gallantry. A history buff, he has also written dance and theater criticism. He enjoys the outdoor sports of hunting, fishing, and sailing, and the indoor sports of poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting. He has been writing since 1977 and intends to continue until they nail shut his coffin.
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Guy Gavriel Kay
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Guy Gavriel KayGuy Gavriel Kay was born in Weyburn Saskatchewan in 1954 and now resides in Toronto. He started writing fantasy with his Fionavar Tapestry Trilogy which included The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire and The Darkest Road. This internationally successful series garnered him a nomination for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best New Writer in 1986. He has been awarded Canada's Aurora award twice for the novels Tigana (which was also nominated for the World Fantasy Award) and the above mentioned The Wandering Fire. His novel, Sailing to Sarantium, was voted #5 on the SF Sites.
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Katherine Kerr
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Katherine KerrKatharine Kerr was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1944 to a family which considered itself British-in-exile far more than American. Since she was taught to read on British books alone, these sentiments resulted in her inability to spell properly in either system, British or American, though fortunately there were no other lasting effects.

After dropping out of Stanford University in the mid-Sixties to join several of the revolutions then in progress, Katharine worked at a number of low-paying jobs, including a stint in the Post Office, while she read extensively in the fields of classical archaeology and literature, Medieval and Dark Ages history, and modern fiction. (She can muddle along in Latin and several modern languages, including the speech of rock-and-roll musicians.) Eventually she had the good fortune to meet up with an old friend from secondary school, Howard Kerr, who loves cats, books, and baseball as much as she does. They were married in 1973.

In 1979 a friend gave Katharine what became known as "the fatal gift," her first fantasy role-playing game. She became so intrigued with both gaming and the fantasy field as a whole that she began writing articles for gaming magazines, and for some time was a contributing editor to DRAGON magazine as well as contributing to gaming modules for both TSR, Inc, and Chaosium, Inc. Now, however, she is devoting herself exclusively to fiction, for the simple reasons that there are only twenty-four hours in a day, and she does require the normal amount of sleep.
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Katherine Kurtz
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Katherine KurtzKatherine Kurtz was born in Coral Gables, Florida during a hurricane, and likes to think this was an auspicious introduction to the world. She read honours humanities at the University of Miami, from which she received a B.S. in chemistry, and attended medical school for a year before deciding she would rather write about medicine than practice it. She completed an M.A. in medieval English history at UCLA while writing her first two novels and working as an instructional designer for the Los Angeles Police Academy, and continued her police work for the next ten years. She is also a professionally trained hypnotist, a student of comparative religion, a passable authority on heraldry and chivalry (she belongs to several modern-day chivalric orders, and her husband has just been appointed a state herald for Ireland), a virtuoso at counted cross-stitch (in her copious spare time), and an avowed cat person.
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula Kroeber was born in 1929 in Berkeley, California, where she grew up. Her parents were the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and the writer Theodora Kroeber, author of Ishi. She went to Radcliffe College and did graduate work at Columbia University. She married Charles A. Le Guin, a historian, in Paris in 1953; they have lived in Portland, Oregon, since 1958, and have three children and three grandchildren. Ursula K. Le Guin writes both poetry and prose, and in various modes including realistic fiction, science fiction, fantasy, young children's books, books for young adults, screenplays, essays, verbal texts for musicians, and voicetexts for performance or recording. She has published five books of poetry, seventeen novels, over a hundred short stories (collected in eight volumes), two collections of essays, eleven books for children,and two volumes of translation. Few American writers have done work of such high quality in so many forms.
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C. S. Lewis
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C. S. LewisLike so many of England's great men, Clive Staples (Jack) Lewis was born in Ireland, in Belfast on 29 November 1898.

C. S. Lewis volunteered for the army in 1917 and was wounded in the trenches in World War I. During the fighting he promised a comrade that if the young man did not return home to England, that he would look after his mother. Lewis kept his promise, providing the widow with a home and support until she died.

After the war, he attended university at Oxford. Soon, he found himself on the faculty of Magdalen College where he taught Mediaeval and Renaissance English.

The wound he received in the First World War would affect him physically throughout his life, yet the Second World War had a more profound effect on his writing. The new mechanized and bureaucratized society that rose up during the war years held a fascination for him. His witty observations on it can be perused in the 'Screwtape Letters'.

Throughout his academic career he wrote clearly on the topic of religion. His most famous works include the Screwtape Letters and the Chronicles of Narnia. The atmosphere at Oxford and Cambridge tended to skepticism. Lewis used this skepticism as a foil.

For much of his life, C. S. Lewis was a member of a brilliant if informal society called the Inklings. It frequently gathered together in a small pub in Oxford. Other members of this group included J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy and Charles Williams.

Lewis died in 1963.
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George R. R. Martin
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George R. R. MartinGeorge R.R. Martin was born September 20, 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey. He began writing very young, selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies, dramatic readings included. Later he became a comic book fan and collector in high school, and began to write fiction for comic fanzines (amateur fan magazines). Martin's first professional sale was made in 1970 at age 21, 'The Hero,' sold to Galaxy, published in February, 1971 issue. Other sales followed.

In 1970 Martin received a B.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, graduating summa cum laude. He went on to complete a M.S. in Journalism in 1971, also from Northwestern.

Martin became a full-time writer in 1979. He was writer-in-residence at Clarke College from 1978-79.

Moving on to Hollywood, Martin signed on as a story editor for Twilight Zone at CBS Television in 1986.

In 1987 Martin became an Executive Story Consultant for Beauty and the Beast at CBS. In 1988 he became a Producer for Beauty and the Beast, then in 1989 moved up to Co-Supervising Producer. He was Executive Producer for Doorways, a pilot which he wrote for Columbia Pictures Television, which was filmed during 1992-93.

Martin's present home is Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a member of Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (he was South-Central Regional Director 1977-1979, and Vice President 1996-1998), and of Writers' Guild of America, West.
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Michael Moorcock
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Michael MoorcockMichael Moorcock has published over 70 novels in all genres. These include several series that share, to different extents, a common multiverse: the Cornelius Chronicles, The Dancers at the End of Time, Erekose, The Books of Corum, Hawkmoon: The Chronicles of Castle Brass, Hawkmoon: The History of the Runestaff and the classic Elric of Melnibone Saga. He has also edited an anthology of late Victorian science fiction, Before Armageddon. Under the pen name E.P. Bradbury, he published a series of novel-length pastiches of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom novels.

Moorcock was born in London in 1939 and began writing, illustrating, editing and printing fanzines under the MJM Publications imprint at a young age. He became the editor of Tarzan Adventures at 16 (some sources say 17), and later the Sexton Blake Library. In 1964 he became the radical editor of the experimental and frequently controversial British SF magazine New Worlds.

A multiple winner of the British Fantasy Award, Moorcock is also a World Fantasy Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner for his novel Gloriana. He won the 1967 Nebula Award for his novella 'Behold the Man.' He has twice won the Derleth Award for Fantasy (for The Sword and the Stallion, and The Hollow Lands), and the Guardian Fiction Prize (1977) for The Condition of Muzak. He has been shortlisted for both the Booker and Whitbread prizes, Britain's most prestigious literary awards. Moorcock currently lives in London, Spain and Texas. Moorcock has also recorded music, both solo and with the progressive rock group, Hawkwind.
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Terry Pratchett
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Terry PratchettTerry Pratchett is, on average, a sort of youngish middle-aged. He was born in 1948 in the village of Forty Green (now a part of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire) and is still not dead.

He lives in the west country with his wife Lyn and daughter Rhianna where he writes books in between answering the mail. He lives in constant dread that someone will find out how enjoyable he finds writing, and stop him doing it. He chose journalism as a career because it was indoor work with no heavy lifting. He's managed to avoid all the really interesting jobs authors take in order to look good in this sort of biography. He started work as a journalist one day in 1965 and saw his first corpse three hours later, work experience meaning something in those days.

He likes people to buy him banana daiquiris (he knows people don't read author biographies, but feels this might be worth a try). He tries to make computers do things they were never intended to do. He also feels that the world could use more orang-utans.

He has a two speed Hedge Cutter and there is no truth to the rumor that he likes being presented with "wow-wow sauce" sandwiches at signings.
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Melanie Rawn
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Melanie RawnMelanie Rawn is the author of the bestselling Dragon Prince triology and of the Dragon Star trilogy. She graduated from Scripps College with a BA in history, and has worked as a teacher and editor. She lives in a small town outside Los Angeles.
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Jennifer Roberson
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Jennifer RobersonJennifer has a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Northern Arizona University, with an extended major in British history. She spent her final semester in England at the University of London, which enabled her to do indepth research at such sites as the museums, great homes, and cathedrals of England; Scotland's Edinburgh, Loch Ness, and Glencoe and the castles and countryside of Wales. In 1985 she returned for more research and visited Dublin, Ireland, as well. Prior to becoming a full-time writer in 1985, Jennifer was employed as an investigative reporter for a morning daily, and as an advertising copywriter for a major marketing company.

Jennifer Roberson grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and used to compete in amateur rodeos. Her primary hobby now is the breeding, training, and exhibition of Cardigan Welsh Corgis in the conformation, agility, and obedience rings at dog shows and trials. She lives on rural acreage in Northern Arizona with (currently) seven dogs and three cats.
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Joel Rosenberg
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Joel RosenbergJoel Rosenberg was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1954 and was raised in eastern North Dakota and northern Connecticut. He attended the University of Connecticut, where he met and married Felicia Herman.

Joel's occupations, before settling down to writing full-time, have run the usual gamut, including driving a truck, caring for the institutionalized retarded, bookkeeping, gambling, motel desk-clerking, and a two-week stint of passing himself off as a head chef.

Joel's first sale, an op-ed piece favoring nuclear power, was published in The New York Times. His stories have appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Perpetual Light, Amazing Science Fiction Stories, and TSR's The Dragon.

Joel's hobbies include backgammon, poker, bridge, and several other sorts of gaming, as well as cooking; his broiled butterfly leg of lamb has to be tasted to be believed.

He now lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife and the traditional two cats.
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Fred Saberhagen
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Fred SaberhagenFred Saberhagen was born in Chicago, Illinois, on May 18, 1930. He served early in the US Air Force, followed by working as a civilian electronics technician. Some of his first writings were several articles on the topics of science and technology for the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Since then, Fred has become a very popular and well-known author in the fields of both science fiction and fantasy. The fictional worlds that he has created have grown and expanded over the years, resulting in at least four unique series. Berserker was published in 1967, beginning his best known and longest running science fiction series. In fact, this series has recently been optioned to New Line Cinema. His Swords, Lost Swords, and Book of the Gods series have explored the worlds of fantasy.

Less well known are Saberhagen's ventures into the arena of historical fantasy, where figures such as Hitler and Lincoln occupy his alternate worlds. He has also produced a unique picture of classic literary figures, including Dracula and Sherlock Holmes. (Please visit Fred's Bibliography page for a detailed listing of his published works)

Fred Saberhagen's books have now been translated into many different languages and his reputation is still growing. Currently, he lives and works with his wife in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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R. A. Salvatore
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R. A. SalvatoreBob Salvatore was born in Massachusetts in 1959. His love affair with fantasy, and with literature in general, began during his sophomore year of college when he was given a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings as a Christmas gift. He promptly changed his major from computerscience to journalism. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Communications from Fitchburg State College in 1981, then returned for the degree he always cherished, the Bachelor of Arts in English. He began writing seriously in 1982, penning the manuscript that would become Echoes of the Fourth Magic.

His first published novel was The Crystal Shard from TSR in 1988. Since that time, Bob has published numerous novels, including the New York Times Bestselling The Halfling's Gem, Sojourn, and The Legacy, the first hardcover for Bob and for TSR. Bob held many jobs during those first years as a writer, finally settling in (much to our delight) to write full time in 1990. R.A. Salvatore is best known as the creator of the dark elf Drizzt, one of the fantasy genre's most beloved characters. Over three million R.A. Salvatore novels have been sold with many translated into different languages and audio versions.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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J. R. R. TolkienOn 3rd January 1892 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, creator of Middle-earth and author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion was born in the town of Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State, where his father, Arthur, had moved to take up a senior position with a bank. In early 1895 his mother, Mabel,returned to England with Ronald and his younger brother, Hilary, exhausted by the climate. After Arthur's death from rheumatic fever, the family made their home at Sarehole, near Birmingham. This beautiful rural area made a great impression on the young Ronald, and its effect can be seen in his later writing and his pictures. Mabel died in 1904, leaving the boys to the care of Father Francis Morgan, a priest at the Birmingham Oratory. At King Edward's School, Ronald was taught Classics, Anglo-Saxon and Middle English. He had great linguistic talent, and after studying old Welsh and Finnish he started to invent his own
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Tad Williams
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Tad WilliamsTad Williams has held more jobs than any sane person should admit to -- singing in a band, selling shoes, managing a financial institution, throwing newspapers, and designing military manuals, to name just a few.

He also hosted a syndicated radio show for ten years, worked in theater and television production, taught both grade-school and college classes, and worked in multimedia for a major computer firm. He is cofounder of an interactive television company, and is currently writing comic books and film and television scripts as well as novels. Tad and his wife live in London and the San Francisco Bay Area. They spend their occasional microseconds of leisure time engineering world peace and making sarcastic remarks about their pets.
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Roger Zelazny
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Roger ZelaznyBorn in 1937, Roger Joseph Zelazny left his strongest mark in the Science Fiction Literature of the '60s and '70s. His first story was published in 1962, and he went on to publish more than 150 short stories and 50 books. His best works include novels 'Lord of Light' (1967), 'This Immortal' (1966), 'Creatures of Light and Darkness' (1969), and the Amber series of novels, as well as many excellent short stories and collections. Zelazny was considered the leader of the Science Fiction's 'New Wave' movement. Emphasising on the psychology of his characters, as well as on the elaborateness of ideas and literary settings, his writings won acclaim by both the literary critics and the readers. Zelazny's prose is often known to blur the distinction between Science Fiction and fantasy. Some of his best known novels were based on mythology of various cultures. His Lord of Light was based on the Hindu pantehon. Egyption gods and goddesses populated his Creatures of Light and Darkness, while his Eye of Cat featured elements of Navajo religion and folklore.

He has won many awards for his work, including 6 Hugos, which are awarded by science fiction fans, and two Nebulas, awarded by Science Fiction Writers of America. Zelazny, who had cancer for several months, died Wednesday June 14th 1995 at St. Vincent Hospital of kidney failure associated with the cancer.

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