Karen Wynn Fonstad
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Karen Wynn Fonstad (1945–2005) was the author of several atlases of fictional worlds.
She was born April 181945 in Oklahoma City: her parents were James and Estis Wynn. Having graduated from Norman High School in Norman, Oklahoma, she earned a B.S. degree in Physical Therapy and an M.A. in Geography, specializing in cartography, from the University of Oklahoma. While attending OU she met Todd A. Fonstad: they married on March 211970. They had two children: Dr. Mark A. Fonstad and Kristina Stingle. She died March 112005 of complications from breast cancer.
Bibliography
Fonstad's speciality was the creation of fictional atlases:
- The Atlas of Pern (1984, ISBN 0345314344)
- Pern, basis for the Dragon Riders stories by Anne McCaffrey
- The Atlas of the Land (1985, ISBN 034531431X)
- The Land, basis for The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson
- Atlas of the Dragonlance World (1987, ISBN 0880384484)
- Krynn, basis for the DragonLance stories by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis (among others)
- The Forgotten Realms Atlas (1990, ISBN 0880388579)
- Forgotten Realms, published by TSR
- The Atlas of Middle-earth (Revised Edition) (2001, ISBN 0618126996)
- Middle-earth, basis for The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Several of them are available in translated form.
External links
- Obituary (http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/1110669403) on theonering.net