Robin Hobb

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Robin Hobb
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, also known as Megan Lindholm and Robin Hobb
Hobb at the Trolls & Legends festival in Mons, Belgium in April 2011
Born Margaret Astrid Lindholm
(1952-03-05) March 5, 1952 (age 72)
Berkeley, California, US
Pen name Robin Hobb, Megan Lindholm
Occupation Writer
Nationality American
Period 1983–present
Genre Fantasy fiction
Notable works Assassin's Apprentice
Royal Assassin
Assassin's Quest
Spouse Fred Ogden

Robin Hobb is a pseudonym of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (born March 5, 1952), an American writer. She is best known for the books set in the Realm of the Elderlings, which started in 1995 with the publication of Assassin's Apprentice, the first book in the Farseer trilogy.

Background

Margaret Astrid Lindholm was born in Berkeley, California, in 1952,[1] but grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska.[2][unreliable source?] After graduating from Austin E. Lathrop High School, she studied at Denver University for a year and then returned to Alaska. At eighteen, she married Fred Ogden and they returned to his home town of Kodiak, located at the tip of Kodiak Island in south-central Alaska. At that time she sold her first short story, and began a career writing for children's magazines. Her short fiction for children appeared in magazines such as Humpty Dumpty and Highlights for Children. She also composed educational material, short works of fiction created to a very specific vocabulary list. These were used in SRA's programmed reading material. In 1980, she was awarded an Alaska State Council of the Arts prize for her short story, "The Poaching".

Ogden's reading enjoyment of fantasy and science fiction led her to writing in the speculative fiction genre. She published short stories in fanzines such as Space and Time (edited by Gordon Linzner) before her first professional fantasy sale. "Bones for Dulath" in Amazons! was the first piece of fantasy that she published as Megan Lindholm.[3] The anthology was published by Daw, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, and won a World Fantasy Award for Year's Best Anthology. This was the first published tale about her two popular characters, Ki and Vandien. A second story featuring them, "The Small One" was published in Fantastic Stories in 1980, Vol.27, #11. In 1982, she sold her first novel, Harpy's Flight to Terry Windling at Ace Publishing. This was to launch her career as a novelist. As Megan Lindholm, her works have been finalists for both the Nebula and the Hugo awards.

Her books have been praised by Orson Scott Card, who has stated that she "arguably set the standard for the modern serious fantasy novel".[4] George R.R. Martin has praised her work: "In today's crowded fantasy market Robin Hobb's books are like diamonds in a sea of zircons."

She was a Guest of Honour at Loncon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, which was held from 14 to 18 August 2014.

Writing

From 1983 to 1992, she wrote exclusively under the pseudonym Megan Lindholm. Fiction under that name spans several slices of the fantasy genre, from fantasy adventure (The Ki and Vandien tales) to urban fantasy (Wizard of the Pigeons.)

In 1995, she began use of the pseudonym Robin Hobb for works of epic traditional fantasy. She currently publishes under both names, and lives in Tacoma, Washington. As of 2003 she had sold over 1 million copies of her first nine Robin Hobb novels.[5] She has recently finished writing a four-volume novel called The Rain Wild Chronicles. The volumes are named The Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of Dragons and Blood of Dragons which was released in 2013.[6] Her second latest release, The Inheritance, is a collection of short fiction by both Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm.

In 2013, it was announced that she would return to her beloved characters Fitz and the Fool with a trilogy entitled The Fitz and the Fool Trilogy. The first volume, Fool's Assassin, was published in August 2014 in the US and the UK, and the second, Fool's Quest, a year later.

Bibliography

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Main article: Robin Hobb bibliography

Interviews

References

  1. ↑ Hobb, Robin". Last updated May 26, 2014. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (sf-encyclopedia.com). Retrieved 2014-08-03.
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  3. ↑ http://www.meganlindholm.com/ Biography
  4. ↑ Beach-Bag Books.
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