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Revision as of 12:25, 23 August 2009
Contents
Short bio
Margaret Astrid Ogden was born on March 5th, 1952 in Berkeley, California. She grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska and has lived also in Denver, Kodiak and Hawaii. She majored in Communications at Denver University, Colorado. She now lives in Tacoma, Washington. As an author she is known under her pen names Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm.
Robin Hobb has been a professional writer for over 30 years: she started her career writing short stories for children's magazines and moved to fantasy and novels about 10 years later.
Writings by Robin Hobb
The Farseer trilogy
- Assassin's Apprentice (1995)
- Royal Assassin (1996)
- Assassin's Quest (1997)
The Liveship Traders trilogy
- Ship of Magic (1998)
- The Mad Ship (1999)
- Ship of Destiny (2000)
- The Inheritance (2000)
- Homecoming (2004)
The Tawny Man trilogy
- Fool's Errand (2001)
- The Golden Fool (2002)
- Fool's Fate (2003)
The Soldier Son trilogy
- Shaman's Crossing (2005)
- Forest Mage (2006)
- Renegade Magic (2007)
Essays
- A Bar and a Quest (2001)
Awards
Endeavour Award
- 1999 Ship of Magic (nominated)
- 2000 The Mad Ship (nominated)
- 2007 Forest Mage (won)
Imaginales
- 2006 Homecoming won the Best Short Story Award
- 2007 Shaman's Crossing won the Best Foreign Novel Award
British Fantasy Society Best Novel Award
- 1996 Assassin's Apprentice (nominated)
- 1996 Royal Assassin (nominated)
- 1997 Assassin's Quest (nominated)
List of awards at FantasticFiction, The BFS Awards
Dutch Elf Fantasy Award
- 2003, winner
Links
- Robin Hobb - official site
- Megan Lindholm - official site
- Hobb's SFF.net newsgroup
- SF Site Review for Cloven Hooves includes a biography
- Bio written by Hobb herself
- The Trilogy in Fantasy Writing, an essay by Hobb at amazon.co.uk
- Interview in "Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy Speak"