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Katharine Kerr (1944 – ) is a science fiction and fantasy novelist, best known for her series of Celtic-influenced high fantasy novels set in the fancied land of Deverry.

Biography
Katharine Kerr was innate inside Cleveland, Ohio, and given the title Nancy Brahtin. She describes her personal feeling extra prefer "British-in-exile" than Our contries. She describes her inability to spell properly utilizing either a British or even Our contries systems following of getting been taught to page through entirely by having British books. Patch however the schoolgirl, her personal moved to Santa Barbara, California. Katharine was horrified to discover 1st that there are no major league baseball teams existed there however (baseball existence a great passion of hers along using reading & cats), and so that beaches were considered sir thomas more significant around Southern California than books.

Around 1962, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, eventually moving to San Francisco itself. She spent motion study at Stanford University but dropped out within the mid-sixties to join in many revolutions. She so worked around many sale-paying jobs, including work on the Post Office.

Around 1973, she met higher by owning Howard Kerr, an old friend of hers from either middle school. Each shared the love for cats, books & baseball. It were married that equivalent season.

Within 1979, a friend gave Katharine her 1st fantasy-role swimming game, which she refers to when "the fatal gift". This gift lead her to a fascination using the play & fantasy field. This fascination led her to write articles for play magazines. She spent period as a tributary editor to Dragon magazine & contributed to gaming modules for two TSR, Inc, and Chaosium, Inc.

Katharine today dedicates herself entirely to fiction & is known for her fiction novels, especially her novels of Deverry.

Writing style
Katharine writes around a non-linear style, instead interweaving stories from either a past by using the present. This emphasizes a importance of the past on the present. When numbers of readers buy this super confusing & frustrating, others buy it a super refreshing method of story writing & extract farther enjoyment from either either either a story when it look at a plot line from the past merge & hyperlink using a the plot line from the present.

Bibliography
Deverry novels

  • Daggerspell (1986)
  • Darkspell (1987) — later reissued around an "author's definitive edition"
  • The Bristling Wood (1989) — US title; issued in the UK as Dawnspell: The Bristling Wood
  • The Dragon Revenant (1990) — US title; issued in the UK when Dragonspell: A Southern Sea
  • A Time of Exile (1991)
  • A Time of Omens (1992)
  • Days of Blood and Fire (1993) — US title; issued in the UK as A Period of War
  • Days of Air and Darkness (1994) — US title; issued in the UK as A Instance of Justice
  • The Red Wyvern (1997)
  • The Black Raven (1998)
  • The Fire Dragon (2000) First releases:
  • The Gold Falcon (2005) — Part I of the Silver Wyrm
  • The Black Stone (2006) — Part Two of the Silver Wyrm

    Pinch

  • Palace (1996) — with Mark Kreighbaum
  • The Eyes of God (1998) — written only by Mark Kreighbaum

    Polar City

  • Polar City Blues (1990) — with Kate Daniel
  • Polar City Nightmare (2000) — with Kate Daniel

    Other science fiction novels
    Resurrection (1992) Freeze Frames (1995) Snare (2003)

    Anthologies
    Weird Tales from either Shakespeare (1994) — with Martin H. Greenberg Enchanted Forests (1995) — with Martin H. Greenberg A Shimmering Door (1996) — with Martin H. Greenberg Necromancy (1997)

    • Kerr, Katharine
    Author-maintained website

    The Deverry Homepage
    A fan page dedicated primarily to Kerr's Deverry series, with biographical information on the author and her books, in addition to Deverry-specific minutae.

    Lunacat.net: Katharine Kerr
    Information on Katharine Kerr and reviews of some of her books, from Lunacat.net

    Katharine Kerr's Home Page
    The author's official site with information about her writings, worlds, and herself.

    Snare
    Review of Snare by Katherine Kerr.




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