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Robin McKinley

(Jennifer Carolyn Robin McKinley)

(1952 - )
(Wife of Peter Dickinson)

About Robin McKinley

Robin McKinley lives in southern England with three whippets (Rowan, Holly, and Hazel), over five hundred rose bushes, a cream-coloured 1965 MGB convertible, and her husband, the English writer Peter Dickinson.

New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

Fire

Pegasus

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

Chalice

Series

Folktales
Beauty: A Re-telling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978)
Rose Daughter (1997)
Spindle's End (2000)

Damar
The Blue Sword (1982)
The Door in the Hedge (1982)
The Hero and the Crown (1984)

Novels

The Outlaws of Sherwood (1988)
Rowan (1992)
Deerskin (1993)
The Stone Fey (1998)
Sunshine (2003)
Dragonhaven (2007)
Chalice (2008)
Pegasus (2010)

Collections

A Knot in the Grain: And Other Stories (1994)
Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits (2002) (with Peter Dickinson)
Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits (2009) (with Peter Dickinson)

Anthologies edited

Imaginary Lands (1985)

Anthologies containing stories by Robin McKinley

Imaginary Lands (1985)
Strange Dreams (1993)
Silver Birch, Blood Moon (1999)

Short stories

The Stone Fey (1985)

Awards

	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Collection nominee (1983) : The Door in the Hedge
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1983) : The Blue Sword
	Newbery Medal Best Novel winner (1985) : The Hero and the Crown
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1985) : The Hero and the Crown
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1994) : Deerskin
	World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (2003) : Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (2004) : Sunshine

Links to other websites

Official Robin McKinley Home Page

Robin McKinley recommends

Homunculus (1986)
(Langdon St. Ives, book 1)
James P Blaylock
"No one should be spared the unique perversity of Jim Blaylock's world view."

Looks (2008)
Madeleine George
"Brilliant."

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