Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee

Raising money for the Alzheimer's Research Trust as part of the Match It For Pratchett campaign 2011
Born 19 September 1947
London
Pen name Esther Garber; Judas Garbah
Nationality British
Genres Speculative fiction
Notable award(s) 1980 British Fantasy Award, 1983 & 1984 World Fantasy Award
Spouse(s) John Kaiine

www.tanithlee.com

Tanith Lee (born 19 September 1947(1947-09-19)) is a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy. She is the author of over 70 novels and 250 short stories, a children's picture book (Animal Castle) and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of BBC science fiction series Blake's 7. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award (also known as the August Derleth Award), for her book Death's Master (1980).[1][2]

She also writes under the pseudonym Esther Garber.[2]

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Personal life

Lee was born in London in September 9, 1947.[3] She is the daughter of two ballroom dancers. Despite a persistent rumour, she is not the daughter of Bernard Lee (actor who played "M" in the James Bond series of films of the 1960s). Tanith Lee married author John Kaiine in 1992.[4]

Lee worked as a file clerk, an assistant librarian, a shop assistant and a waitress before becoming a full time writer. Her first short story, Eustace, was published in 1968. Her first novel (for children) was The Dragon Hoard, published in 1971. Her career really took off with the acceptance in 1975 by Daw Books USA of her adult fantasy epic The Birthgrave – a mass-market paperback. Lee has since maintained a prolific output in popular genre writing.[3][4][5][6]

Works

Tanith Lee's 1971 debut was the children's book The Dragon Hoard; her first adult book was The Birthgrave in 1975.[7] Lee's prolific output spans a host of different genres, including adult fantasy, children's fantasy, science fiction, horror, Gothic horror, Gothic romance, and the historical novel. Her series of interconnected tales called The Flat-Earth Cycle, beginning with Night's Master and Death's Master, is similar in scope and breadth to Jack Vance's The Dying Earth.[8]

Lee's style is frequently remarked upon for its use of rich poetic prose, striking imagery, and nonconformist interpretations of fairy tales, vampire stories, myths, and the fantasy genre.[8] Her stories often feature themes of feminism and sexuality.[2][9] She also writes lesbian fiction under the pseudonym Esther Garber.[10]

Night's Master contains allegorical tales involving Azhrarn, a demonic prince who kidnaps and raises a beautiful boy and separates him from the sorrow of the real world. Eventually, the boy wants to know more about the earth, and asks to be returned, setting off a series of encounters between Azhrarn and the Earth's people, some horrific, some positive. Later tales are loosely based on Babylonian mythology. In the science fiction Four-BEE series, Lee explores youth culture and identity in a society which grants eternally young teenagers complete freedom. They are even killed and receive new bodies, gender and/or identity over and over again. Lee has also dabbled in the historical novel with The Gods are Thirsty, set during the French Revolution.[8]

A large part of her output is children's fantasy, which has spanned her entire career from The Dragon Hoard in 1971 to the more recent The Claidi Journals containing Wolf Tower, Wolf Star, Wolf Queen and Wolf Wing in the late 1990s and early 2000s.[11]

Lee has been published in various imprints, particularly depending on whether she is offering adult fiction or children's fantasy. Her earlier children's fantasy novels were published in hardcover by MacMillan UK and subsequently printed as paperbacks in the US often by DAW, with occasional hardcovers by St. Martin's Press. Some of her work was only printed in paperback, mainly in the US by DAW in the 1970s to the early 1980s. She has received some small press treatment, such as the Arkham House edition of short stories Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee in 1986, and in the first "Night Visions" instalment published by Dark Harvest. Some of her work has been released exclusively in the UK with US publications often pending.[3]

Bibliography

Works of Tanith Lee arranged by date of publication:

  • The Dragon Hoard (1971)
  • Animal Castle (1972)
  • Princess Hynchatti & Some Other Surprises (1972) (collection of original fairy tales)
  • The Birthgrave Trilogy
  • The Birthgrave (1975)
  • Shadowfire (1978) (US title: Vazkor, Son of Vazkor )
  • Quest for the White Witch (1978)
  • Companions on the Road (1975)
  • The Four-BEE Series
  • Don't Bite the Sun (1976)
  • Drinking Sapphire Wine (1977)
  • The Wars of Vis
  • The Storm Lord (1976)
  • Anackire (1983)
  • The White Serpent (1988)
  • The Winter Players (1976)
  • Companions on the road and The winter players: Two novellas (1977) (omnibus)
  • Volkhavaar (1977)
  • East of Midnight (1977)
  • Castle of Dark
  • The Castle of Dark (1978)
  • Prince on a White Horse (1982)
  • Dark Castle, White Horse (1986) (omnibus)
  • The Thaw (novelette) (1979)
  • Electric Forest (1979)
  • Shon the Taken (1979)
  • Sabella, or the Blood Stone (1980)
  • Kill the Dead (1980)
  • Sometimes, After Sunset (1980) (omnibus including Sabella & Kill the Dead)
  • Day by Night (1980)
  • Lycanthia, or The Children of Wolves (1981)
  • The S.I.L.V.E.R. Series
  • The Silver Metal Lover (1981)
  • Metallic Love (2005)
  • The Tin Man (20??)
  • Unsilent Night (1981)
  • Cyrion (1982) (collection of short stories framed by a novella, all centred around the title character)
  • Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer (1983) (collection of fantasy retellings of fairy tales)
  • Sung in Shadow (1983) (fantasy retelling of Romeo and Juliet)
  • Tamastara, or The Indian Nights (1984) (collection of stories and novellas themed around India)
  • Night Visions (1984) (collection of various short stories)
  • The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales (1985) (collection of various short stories)
  • Days of Grass (1985)
  • Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee (1986) (collection of various short stories)
  • The Secret Books of Paradys (set in an alternate version of Paris)
  • The Book of the Damned (1988)
  • The Book of the Beast (1988)
  • The Book of the Dead (1991) (collection of short stories set in this world)
  • The Book of the Mad (1993)
  • The Secret Books of Paradys (2007) (omnibus reprint of all four books)
  • Madame Two Swords (1988)
  • Women as Demons: The Male Perception of Women through Space and Time (1989) (collection of various short stories)
  • Forests of The Night (1989) (collection)
  • A Heroine of the World (1989)
  • The Blood of Roses (1990)
  • The Unicorn Series
  • Black Unicorn (1991)
  • Gold Unicorn (1994)
  • Red Unicorn (1997)
  • Dark Dance (1992)
  • Personal Darkness (1993)
  • Darkness, I (1994)
  • Heart-Beast (1992)
  • Elephantasm (1993)
  • Nightshades: Thirteen Journeys Into Shadow (1993) (collection of short stories and a novella)
  • Eva Fairdeath (1994)
  • Vivia (1995)
  • Reigning Cats and Dogs (1995)
  • When the Lights Go Out (1996)
  • Louisa the Poisoner (1996)
  • The Gods Are Thirsty (1996) (historical novel about the French Revolution)
  • The Secret Books of Venus (set in an alternate version of Venice)
  • Faces Under Water (1998)
  • Saint Fire (1999)
  • A Bed of Earth (2002)
  • Venus Preserved (2003)
  • Law of the Wolf Tower (1998) (US title: Wolf Tower)
  • Wolf Star Rise (2000) (US title: Wolf Star)
  • Queen of the Wolves (2001) (US title: Wolf Queen)
  • Wolf Wing (2002)
  • Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventures Upon the High Seas (2004)
  • Piratica II: Return to Parrot Island (2006)
  • Piratica III: The Family Sea (2007)
  • Cast a Bright Shadow (2004)
  • Here In Cold Hell (2005)
  • No Flame but Mine (2007)
  • Death of the Day (2004)
  • L'Amber (2006)
  • Indigara (2007)
  • Tempting The Gods: The Selected Stories of Tanith Lee, Volume One (2009)
  • Hunting The Shadows: The Selected Stories of Tanith Lee, Volume Two (2009)
  • Sounds and Furies: Seven Faces of Darkness (2010)
  • Disturbed By Her Song (2010)
  • Greyglass (2011)
  • The Earth Is Flat (Forthcoming)
  • Earth's Master (Forthcoming)
  • The Firesmith (Forthcoming)
  • To Indigo (Forthcoming)

Awards

Nebula Awards

  • 1975: The Birthgrave (nominated, best novel)
  • 1980: Red As Blood (nominated, best short story)

World Fantasy Awards[12]

  • 1979: Night's Master (nominated, best novel)
  • 1983: "The Gorgon" (winner, best short story)
  • 1984: "Elle Est Trois, (La Mort)" (winner, best short story)
  • 1984: "Nunc Dimittis" (nominated, best novella)
  • 1984: Red As Blood, or, Tales From The Sisters Grimmer (nominated, best anthology/collection)
  • 1985: Night Visions 1 (nominated, best anthology/collection)
  • 1987: Dreams Of Dark And Light (nominated, best anthology/collection)
  • 1988: Night's Sorceries (nominated, best anthology/collection)
  • 1999: "Scarlet And Gold" (nominated, best novella)
  • 2006: "Uous" (nominated, best novella)

British Fantasy Awards

  • 1979: Quest For The White Witch (nominated, best novel)
  • 1980: Death's Master (winner, best novel)
  • 1980: "Red As Blood" (nominated, best short story)
  • 1981: Kill The Dead (nominated, best novel)
  • 1999: "Jedella Ghost" (nominated, best short story)
  • 2000: "Where Does The Town Go At Night?" (nominated, best short story)

Nebula Awards

  • 2010: Disturbed by Her Song (nominated, best LGBT speculative fiction)

See also

References

  1. ^ Alison Flood (2010). "World of fantasy: Death's Master by Tanith Lee". guardian.co.uk. http://www.whc2010.org/goh-tanithlee01.html. Retrieved July 25, 2011. 
  2. ^ a b c Robin Anne Reid (2009). Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Overviews. ABC-CLIO. pp. 38, 199, 219. ISBN 9781439150146. http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=jKr0jWY8FLkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
  3. ^ a b c Darrell Schweitzer (1994). Speaking of Horror: Interviews with Writers of the Supernatural. Wildside Press LLC. p. 59–60. ISBN 9781880448816. http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=cbKHtMCHcvkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
  4. ^ a b Jim Pattison , Paul A. Soanes, and Allison Rich (April 17, 2011). "Author Biography: Tanith Lee". Daughter of the Night†: An Annotated Tanith Lee Bibliography. http://www.daughterofthenight.com/tlbio.html. Retrieved July 25, 2011. 
  5. ^ George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois (2010). Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love. Simon and Schuster. p. 361. ISBN 9781439150146. http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=T71Fraq4P5QC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA361#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
  6. ^ "Tanith Lee - Author Guest of Honour". World Horror Convention 2010. 2010. http://www.whc2010.org/goh-tanithlee01.html. Retrieved July 25, 2011. 
  7. ^ "Tanith Lee: Love & Death & Publishers". Locus Online. April 1998. http://www.locusmag.com/1998/Issues/04/Lee.html. Retrieved 17 March 2009. 
  8. ^ a b c Mavis Haut (2001). The hidden library of Tanith Lee: themes and subtexts from Dionysos to the immortal gene. Wildside Press LLC. ISBN 9780786410859. http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=XmOSHrtlBK8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
  9. ^ Angel Fernandez (2003). "Tanith Lee". Modern and Traditional Fairy Tales, San José State University. http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/harris/StudentProjects/Student_FairyTales/WebProject/Bios/Tanith%20Lee.htm. Retrieved July 25, 2011. 
  10. ^ Donald Haase (2008). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: G-P. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 568–569. ISBN 9780313334436. http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=-sj5cJz0_OsC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA558#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
  11. ^ Pam Spencer Holley (2009). Quick and Popular Reads for Teens. ALA Editions. p. 146. ISBN 9780838935774. http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=a1s36QUsvLcC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA146#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
  12. ^ World Fantasy Convention. "Award Winners and Nominees". http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html/. Retrieved 04 Feb 2011. 

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