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KATHARINE KERR |
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Quote: Katharine Kerr is my personal favorite female Author.Her Deverry story is one of the most well told story in the Fantasy world.She shows a series that has it all,adventure,undying love,heroism and one spectacular story. Facts: Katharine Kerr was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1944 to a family which considered itself British-in -exile far more than American and Royalist to boot. Since she was taught to read on British books alone, these sentiments resulted in her inability to spell properly in either system, British or American, though fortunately there were no other lasting effects.Just to compound the culture shock, the family moved to Santa Barbara, California, when Katharine was a schoolgirl. Already an avid baseball fan, her first reaction to the move was horror at discovering that the state had no major league teams, as the Giants and the Dodgers had yet to arrive. Her second reaction was an even greater horror upon realizing that in Southern California beaches are far more important than books. She vowed to leave as soon as possible, carrying out the threat in 1962, when she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. Since then, she has left it only to visit relatives in the British Isles and currently lives in San Francisco itself.After dropping out of Stanford University in the mid-Sixties to join several of the revolutions then in progress, Katharine worked at a number of low-paying jobs, including a stint in the Post Office, while she read extensively in the fields of classical archaeology and literature, Medieval and Dark Ages history, and modern fiction. (She can muddle along in Latin and several modern languages, including the speech of rock-and-roll musicians.) She lived with a number of cats and of course, attended baseball games. Eventually she had the good fortune to meet up with an old friend from secondary school, Howard Kerr, who loves cats, books, and baseball as much as she does. They were married in 1973. The Denverry: Even as a young girl, Jill was a favorite of the magical, mysterious Wildfol k, who appeared to her from their invisible realm. Little did she know her extraordinary friends represented but a glimpse of a forgotten past and a fateful future. Four hundred years and many lifetimes ago, one selfish young lord caused the death of two innocent lovers. Then and there he vowed never to rest until he'd righted that wrong,and laid the foundation for the lives of Jill and all those whom she would hold dear: her father, the mercenary soldier Cullyn; the exiled berserker Rhodry Maelwaedd; and the ancient and powerful herbman Nevyn, all bound in a struggle against darkness...and a quest to fulfill the destinies determined centuries ago. |
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Denverry: -DaggerSpell -DarkSpell -The Bristling Wood -The Dragon Revenant |
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WestLands: -A time of Exile -A time of Omens -Days of Blood and Fire -Days of Air and Darkness |
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Books Of Dragon Lore: -Red Wyvern -Black Raven |
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Books: -Ressurection -The Bargain -Polar City Blues -Weird Tales of Shakespear -Enchanted Forest -Sorceries:Magics old and New -Palace -Wall |