Lawrence Watt-Evans
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Lawrence Watt-Evans (born 1954) is the pseudonym of American fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans. Born in eastern Massachusetts as the fourth of six children, he made his first attempts at professional writing when he was eight.
After graduating from Bedford High School in Bedford, MA, he attended Princeton University but left without a degree. He began to seriously try to sell his writing during a break in his college career, but sold nothing significant until he produced The Lure of the Basilisk in 1978 (published 1980) and thereupon began writing full time. He initially marketed his work under other names; it was the editor of his first novel, Lester Del Rey, who first demanded he use his real name and then created the pseudonym Lawrence Watt-Evans. Evans had insisted on including his middle name to avoid confusion with a contemporary non-fiction writer also named Lawrence Evans, and del Rey had then added the hyphen "to make it more distinctive," thereby relegating Watt-Evans to the bottom shelves in alphabetically-arranged bookstores.
Watt-Evans was president of the Horror Writers of America from 1994 to 1996, and has also served as Eastern Regional Director and treasurer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
In April of 2005, Watt-Evans announced that his latest novel, The Spriggan Mirror, would be made available for free online on a chapter-by-chapter basis.
Works
The Lords of Dus series:
The Worlds of Shadow series:
The Obsidian Chronicles:
The Legends of Ethshar series:
- The Misenchanted Sword, (1985)
- With a Single Spell
- The Unwilling Warlord
- The Blood of a Dragon
- Taking Flight
- The Spell of the Black Dagger
- Night of Madness
- Ithanalin's Restoration
- The Spriggan Mirror (Currently being serialized on the web)
The War Surplus series:
And one horror novel:
Other science fiction novels:
Other fantasy novels:
- The Rebirth of Wonder
- Split Heirs (in collaboration with Esther Friesner)
- Touched by the Gods
Short story collections:
- Crosstime Traffic
- Celestial Debris
Anthologies edited:
He has also written more than a hundred short stories (some under the pseudonym Nathan Archer), including "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers," which won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1988.
External links
- Author's home page: The Misenchanted Page (http://www.watt-evans.com)
- The Ethshar Home Page (http://www.ethshar.com/)
- The Spriggan Experiment (http://www.ethshar.com/thesprigganexperiment0.html) (web serialization of The Spriggan Mirror using a modified version of the Street Performer Protocol)nl:Lawrence Watt-Evans