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Marion Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert
Alden Bradley in 1949. She received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67. |
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MZB has been a science fiction/fantasy fan since her middle teens, and made her first sale as an adjunct to an amateur fiction contest in Fantastic/Amazing Stories in 1949. She has also been writing as long as she can remember, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to Vortex Science Fiction. She has written everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels. In addition to her novels, Mrs. Bradley has edited many magazines, amateur and professional. She now edits Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, which she started in 1988. She also edits 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 remained four months on the NY Times best seller list, and she has also written The Firebrand, a novel about the women of the Trojan War. Her historical novel, The Forest House, is a prequel to Mists Of Avalon, and her newest book, which fits between them, is called Lady Of Avalon. Alas Marion Zimmer Bradley passed away on September 25, 1999 after suffering a major heart attack on September 21. She is sorely missed by fantasy lovers everywhere around the world. |
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(Due to circumstances the counter was reset on 09-11-2003). This page has last been updated on 6-11-1999. If you have any questions, comments or whatever about this site, please e-mail me, Eliadha n'ha Ardana. No profit is gained from this site; this site is intended solely as an informational site for the fans of Marion Zimmer Bradley and her work. All references to Darkover, its inhabitants, etc. are copyright © of Marion Zimmer Bradley. Unless indicated differently, all artwork is © copyright of Eliadha n'ha Ardana. |
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