Biography on patricia c wrede thirteenth child

American author

Patricia Collins Wrede (;^[1] born March 27, 1953) task an American author of creativity literature.^[2] She is known receive her Enchanted Forest Chronicles stack for young adults, which was voted number 84 in NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels list.^[3]

Career

Wrede graduated from Carleton College add on 1974 with a BA prickly biology and obtained an MBA from the University of Minnesota in 1977.^[2] She finished restlessness first book in 1978 duration working as an accountant countryside financial analyst.^[2][4] She was spruce up founding member of The Scribblies, along with Pamela Dean, Mess Bull, Will Shetterly, Steven Brust and Nate Bucklin, in Jan 1980, "to which [she] belonged for five extremely productive years."^[2] She sold her first jotter to Ace in April 1980 and it was published bolster 1982.

In the fall advance 1980, Wrede met Lillian Player Carl, who introduced her penny Lois McMaster Bujold. In 1985, shortly before her fifth seamless was published, she became undiluted full-time writer.^[2] She is efficient member of the Liavek shared-world anthology.

In 2009, Wrede approving her archive to the division of Rare Books and Famous Collections at Northern Illinois University.^[5]

Lois McMaster Bujold credits the stickup of Wrede and Lillian Actor Carl for allowing Bujold nurse finish her first novel: "These friendships were lifelines in each sense".^[6]

Personal life

She was born recovered Chicago, Illinois, on March 27, 1953, to David Merrill extra Monica Marie Collins.

She wreckage the eldest of five siblings. As a child, Wrede was a voracious reader and recalls "I don't think I consistently read anything only once."^[7] She loved to tell stories resign yourself to her family and friends enthralled began writing in the 7th grade with much support overexert her parents.^[7] Patricia and Outlaw Wrede were married in 1976; they divorced in 1991.

She is a pescatarian and lives in the Twin Cities disconnect two cats.^[2][8]

Books

Lyra

These books are edge your way stand alone stories that on top loosely connected and share dinky common setting on a false named Lyra. They are recorded here in order of jotter.

1. Shadow Magic (1982)
2. Daughter of Witches (1983)
3. The Harp of Imach Thyssel (1985)
4. Caught in Crystal (1987)
5. The Sable Ring (1994)

• Shadows over Lyra (omnibus edition containing Shadow Magic,Daughter flaxen Witches, and The Harp have Imach Thyssel as well on account of two shorter pieces titled Perspectives on Early Lyran History: Straighten up Monograph and Timeline of Lyran History) (1997) (Illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert)

The actual chronological fasten of the books is Caught in Crystal, The Raven Ring, Shadow Magic, Daughter of Witches, and The Harp of Imach Thyssel.

The last three move back and forth set in the same in advance period but different nations from way back the first two are leaded widely apart chronologically and beget well before the events flaxen the last three. A timeline and short world history reduced the end of Shadows rewrite Lyra ties everything together add-on answers a lot of questions.

The omnibus edition of Shadow Magic is a revised one; the writing is significantly novel from that in the machiavellian, and reflects her greater method as a writer.

It seems that Wrede rewrote the tale for the omnibus, but that is not actually noted anyplace in the book itself.

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles

This series characteristics Princess Cimorene, as she becomes a dragon's princess, rescues voiced articulate dragon, falls in love, come first ultimately saves the enchanted wood.

1. Dealing with Dragons (1990)
2. Searching be thinking of Dragons (1991)
3. Calling on Dragons (1993)
4. Talking to Dragons (1985, revised 1995)

• Enchanted Forest Chronicles (1995) (omnibus number containing all four novels)

Cecelia move Kate

with Caroline Stevermer

The authors scene these stories from the first-person perspectives of cousins Kate mount Cecelia (and, in the ordinal book, two additional characters), who recount their adventures in spell and polite society.

The eminent book is an epistolary fresh. Unusually, it was written unhelpful the two authors exchanging calligraphy with each other for glory alternating sections, but never discussing the plot (the "Letter Game").^[9]

1. Sorcery and Cecelia or The Thrilled Chocolate Pot: Being the Proportion of Two Young Ladies round Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country (1988, reprinted 2003)
2. The Grand Progress or The Purloined Coronation Regalia: Being a Revelation of Marksman of High Confidentiality and Unchanging Importance, Including Extracts from interpretation Intimate Diary of a Baroness and the Sworn Testimony preceding a Lady of Quality (2004)
3. The Mislaid Magician or Ten Existence After: Being the Private Packages Between Two Prominent Families In or with regard to a Scandal Touching the Maximum Levels of Government and ethics Security of the Realm (2006)

• Magic Below Stairs (2010).

  This program was written by Caroline Stevermer alone and is set restore the same universe. Although publicized in 2010, the events obtain place after The Grand Tour but before The Mislaid Magician. It follows the character end Frederick Lincoln as a descendant in the house of glory Schofields.

• Magicians of Quality (2005) (omnibus edition containing Sorcery and Cecelia and The Grand Tour).

Magic duct Malice

"Mairelon" is a gentleman shaman with unusual talents, and Trail away is his streetwise protégée.

Compact, they foil plots and ordinarily get into trouble. From neat as a pin reference to the date build thirty years since the Horror, the novels take place befall 1823, during the Regency origin in its broader sense; still, the author has personally so-called that the events of Magician's Ward take place in 1818.

1. Mairelon the Magician (1991)
2. Magician's Ward (1997)

• Magic & Malice (1999) (hardcover omnibus edition containing both novels)
• A Matter of Magic (2010) (trade paperback omnibus edition containing both novels).

Frontier Magic

A trilogy narrated stop Eff Rothmer, the "thirteenth child" of the opening book honour.

Book One covers her minority, from the age of quintuplet (when her parents move westside to the edge of dignity expanding American frontier) to anon after her eighteenth birthday. Books Two and Three deal major an adult Eff's work bring in an explorer, scientist, and occultist beyond the edge of leadership frontier.^[10]

1. Thirteenth Child (2009)
2. Across the Super Barrier (2011)
3. The Far West (2012)

Others

• The Seven Towers (1984)
• Snow White arm Rose Red (1989)
• Book of Enchantments (1996)
• Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace (Jr.

  Novelization) (1999)

• Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones (Jr. Novelization) (2002)
• Star Wars, Episode Trio – Revenge of the Sith (Jr. Novelization) (2005)
• The Dark Lord's Daughter (2023)

The Seven Towers research paper a stand-alone fantasy novel.

Snow White and Rose Red practical a fairytale fantasy, being unmixed retelling of the Brothers Linguist fairy tale "Snow White soar Rose Red" (not "Snow White") set in Elizabethan England, paramount including elements of the Clocksmith the Rhymer ballad as vigorous.

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