Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Marion 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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Books
Priestess of Avalon
October 7, 2008
In the long-awaited return to Avalon, the author of The
Mists of Avalon and her collaborator, bestselling author
Diana L. Paxson, fuse myth, magic, and romance in this
spectacular tale of one woman's Read more...
Lady of Avalon
November 27, 2007
New York Times bestselling author Marion Zimmer Bradley
brings the mesmerizing world of myth, romance and history to
life in the spellbinding novel of epic grandeur!
Before the legend of King Arthur and Read more...
The Forest House
June 5, 2007
She was Eilan, the daughter of a Druidic warleader and
gifted with visions. In a land struggling to survive both
Roman conquerors and her own people's enemies, surely fate
had marked her Read more...
A Flame in Hali
August 3, 2004
This brand-new novel of Darkover-a direct sequel to
Zandru's Forge and the third book in the Clingfire trilogy-
is the result of the late Marion Zimmer Bradley's
collaboration with Deborah J. Read more...
Ancestors of Avalon
June 17, 2004
Once again, Diana L. Paxson has beautifully elaborated on
Marion Zimmer Bradley's beloved Avalon saga with this
dramatic new installment, which for the first time reveals
the past of the Read more...
Sword and Sorceress XX
August 1, 2003
Zandru's Forge
June 3, 2003
This brand-new novel of Darkover-a direct sequel to The
Fall of Neskaya and the second book in the Clingfire
trilogy-is the result of the late Marion Zimmer Bradley's
collaboration with Read more...
The Fall Of Neskaya
July 10, 2001
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