Tanith Lee

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Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee (born September 19, 1947) is a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy.

She is the author of at least 54 novels and 188 short stories, a children's picture book (Animal Castle) and many poems. She has also written scripts for the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7.

Said to be the daughter of two ballroom dancers, her father was also rumoured to be Bernard Lee; "M" of the James Bond series of films of the 1960's. Tanith Lee married author John Kaiine in 1992.

Lee worked as a file clerk, an assistant librarian, a shop assistant and a waitress before becoming a full time writer. Her first short story, Eustace, was published in 1968. Her first novel (for children) was The Dragon Hoard, published in 1971. Her career really took off with the acceptance in 1975 by Daw Books USA of her adult fantasy epic The Birthgrave. This was a mass market paperback and Lee has since maintained a prolific output in popular genre writing.

Although she has often transcended the limitations of genre writing, especially in Don't Bite The Sun and its sequel Drinking Sapphire Wine, many of Lee's books have gone out of print rather quickly and new books have had to be written in order to maintain an income. This would explain the common complaint that there is some repetition of ideas across her work.

She is one of the Guests of Honour at [Orbital 2008] the British National Science Fiction convention (Eastercon) to be held in London in March 2008.

Bibliography

1971. Dragon Hoard, The
1972. Animal Castle
1975. Birthgrave, The
1975. Companions on the Road
1976. Don't Bite the Sun
1976. Winter Players, The
1977. Drinking Sapphire Wine
1977. East of Midnight
1977. Volkhavaar
1978. Castle of Dark, The
1978. Night's Master
1978. Quest for the White Witch
1978. Storm Lord, The
1978. Vazkor, Son of Vazkor
1979. Death's Master
1979. Electric Forest
1979. Shon the Taken
1980. Day by Night
1980. Kill the Dead
1980. Sabella, or the Blood Stone
1981. Delusion's Master
1981. Lycanthia, or The Children of Wolves
1981. Silver Metal Lover, The
1982. Prince on a White Horse
1983. Anackire
1983. Red As Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer
1983. Sung in Shadow
1985. Days of Grass
1985. Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales, The
1986. Dark Castle, White Horse
1986. Delirium's Mistress
1987. Night's Sorceries
1988. Book of the Beast, The
1988. Book of the Damned, The
1988. Madame Two Swords
1988. White Serpent, The
1989. Forests of The Night
1989. Heroine of the World, A
1989. Women as Demons: The Male Perception of Women through Space and Time
1990. Blood of Roses, The
1991. Black Unicorn
1991. Book of the Dead, The
1992. Dark Dance
1992. Heart-Beast
1993. Book of the Mad, The
1993. Elephantasm
1993. Nightshades: Thirteen Journeys Into Shadow
1993. Personal Darkness
1994. Darkness, I
1994. Eva Fairdeath
1994. Gold Unicorn
1995. Louisa the Poisoner
1995. Reigning Cats and Dogs
1995. Vivia
1996. Gods Are Thirsty, The
1996. When the Lights Go Out
1997. Putting Up Roots
1998. Faces Under Water
1998. Law of the Wolf Tower
1999. Biting the Sun
1999. Islands in the Sky
2000. Saint Fire
2000. White As Snow
2000. Wolf Tower
2001. Wolf Queen
2001. Wolf Star
2002. Bed of Earth, A
2003. Claidi Collection, The
2003. Mortal Suns
2003. Venus Preserved
2004. Wolf Wing
2004. Fatal Women (as Esther Garber)
2004. 34 (as Esther Garber)
2004. Death of the Day
2005. Metallic Love
2005. Here In Cold Hell
2006. Piratica : Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas
2006. Sages & Swords
2006. Secret Books of Paradys, The
2006. Piratica II
2006. L'Amber

External links

[Official Tanith Lee site]
[Daughter Of The Night - Annotated Online Bibliography]
[Bibliography] on SciFan
[Biography] on the Internet Book List
[] at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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