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Ellen Kushner

USA  (1955 - )
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About Ellen Kushner
Ellen Kushner is an American writer of fantasy novels, and the host of the radio program Sound & Spirit, produced by WGBH in Boston and distributed by Public Radio International.

Kushner was born in Washington, DC and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. She lives in New York City with her wife and sometime collaborator.
 
Series
SwordspointThe Privilege of the SwordSwords of Riverside
 
Series contributed to
Outlaws of Sherwood ForestThe Enchanted Kingdom
 
Anthologies edited
Basilisk (1980)
The Horns of Elfland (1997) (with Donald G Keller and Delia Sherman)
BasiliskThe Horns of Elfland
 
Anthologies containing stories by Ellen Kushner
After MidnightHeroic Visions IIA Century of Fantasy 1980-1989The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fifth Annual CollectionThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual CollectionThe Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's SurvivorsPeter S Beagle's Immortal Unicorn
Peter S Beagle's Immortal Unicorn 2The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual CollectionBending the Landscape: FantasyThe Horns of Elfland
The Essential BordertownSirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and SeductionThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eleventh Annual CollectionThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection
 
Short stories
The Unicorn Masque (1981)
Lazarus (1986)
Night Laughter (1986)
Sonata: For Two Friends in Different Times of the Same Trouble (1990)
The Swordsman Whose Name Was Not Death (1991)
Playing with Fire (1993)
The Hunt of the Unicorn (1995)
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (1995)
The Death of Raven (1997)
The Fall of the Kings [short story] (1997) (with Delia Sherman)World Fantasy (nominee)
The Death of the Duke (1998)World Fantasy (nominee)
Hot Water: a Bordertown Romance (1998)
The House of Nine Doors (1998)


Awards
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel winner (1991) : Thomas the Rhymer
World Fantasy Best Novel winner (1991) : Thomas the Rhymer
World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1998) : The Fall of the Kings [short story]
World Fantasy Best Short story nominee (1999) : The Death of the Duke
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel winner (2003) : The Fall of the Kings
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (2007) : The Privilege of the Sword
Nebula Best Novel nominee (2007) : The Privilege of the Sword


Links to other websites
Sound & Spirit


Ellen Kushner recommends
The Well-Favored Man
The Well-Favored Man (1993)
(Kingdom of Argylle, book 1)
Elizabeth Willey
"A compelling tale to rank with Roger Zelazny's Amber novels."
Trash Sex Magic
Trash Sex Magic (2004)
Jennifer Stevenson
"Ambitious, phantasmagorical, with images that burn into your brain and stay there."
The Magicians and Mrs. Quent
The Magicians and Mrs. Quent (2008)
(Mrs. Quent, book 1)
Galen Beckett
"I loved reading this piquant page-turner of a retro-modernist fantasy novel. But it's more than just a rattling good time. Like its characters, it is not merely devastatingly clever, but has a heart and a soul."



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