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Rachel Pollack

(Rachel Grace Pollack)
USA  (1945 - )
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About Rachel Pollack
Rachel is considered one of the Worlds foremost authorities on the modern interpretation of the Tarot. She is also a poet, an award-winning novelist, and a Tarot card and comic book artist. She has published 12 books on the Tarot, including 78 Degrees of Wisdom (Thorsons, 1998), considered a modern classic and the Bible of Tarot reading. Its marriage of common sense, wide-ranging knowledge, and esoteric awareness have inspired many tens of thousands of readers worldwide to a deeper knowledge of the Tarot.

She is a member of the American Tarot Association, the International Tarot Society, and the Tarot Guild of Australia. With fellow Tarot author Mary Greer, she has taught at the famed Omega Institute for the past twelve years. She has been conferred the title of Tarot Grand Master by the Tarot Certification Board, an independent body located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

As a fiction writer, Pollack has been bestowed many honors and awards, among them the famed Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction (for Unquenchable Fire) and the World Fantasy Award (for Godmother Night). She is a recommended member of PEN International, and has written for numerous publications.

 
Series
Unquenchable Fire
1. Unquenchable Fire (1988)
2. Temporary Agency (1994)
Unquenchable FireTemporary Agency
 
Anthologies edited
Tarot Tales (1989) (with Caitlin Matthews)
Tarot Tales
 
Non fiction
The Complete Illustrated Guide to TarotThe Haindl Tarot: The Major Arcana, Vol. 1Salvador Dali's TarotTeach Yourself Fortune Telling: Palmistry, the Crystal Ball, Runes, Tea Leaves, the Tarot
The Haindl Tarot: A Readers HandbookThe Body of the Goddess: Sacred Wisdom in Myth, Landscape and CultureThe Shining Tribe Tarot: Awakening the Universal SpiritTarot: The Open Labyrinth
Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Book of TarotThe Haindi Tarot: The Minor ArcanaThe Power of Ritual: The Omega Institute Mind, Body, Spirit SeriesHaindl Tarot Set
The Forest of Souls: A Walk Through the TarotThe Kabbalah TreeSeeker: A Teen's Guide to the Tarot
 
Anthologies containing stories by Rachel Pollack
Strange DreamsThe Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary AnthologyFuture Primitive: The New Ecotopias
 
Short stories
The Girl Who Went to the Rich Neighborhood (1984)
The Malignant One (1984)
The Bead Woman (1994)
The Fool, the Stick, And the Princess (1998)


Awards
Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Novel winner (1989) : Unquenchable Fire
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1995) : Temporary Agency
Nebula Best Novel nominee (1995) : Temporary Agency
World Fantasy Best Novel winner (1997) : Godmother Night


Links to other websites
rachelpollack.com


Rachel Pollack recommends
Three Marys
Three Marys (2003)
Paul Park
"From the first moments, Paul Park's intense, always precise language brings ancient stories to life without ever cheapening them through a fake 'realism'. The gospel stories are well served in this vividly imagined book."



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