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About the Author

Tanith Lee was born in North London (UK) in 1947. Because her
parents were professional dancers (ballroom, Latin American) and had to live
where the work was, she attended a number of truly terrible schools, and didn’t
learn to read – she is also dyslectic – until almost age 8. And then only
because her father taught her. This opened the world of books to Lee, and by 9
she was writing. After much better education at a grammar school, Lee went on
to work in a library. This was followed by various other jobs – shop assistant,
waitress, clerk – plus a year at art college when she was 25-26. In 1974 this
mosaic ended when DAW Books of America, under the leadership of Donald A
Wollheim, bought and published Lee’s
The Birthgrave
, and thereafter 26
of her novels and collections.

Since then Lee has written
around 95 books, and over 300 short stories. 4 of her radio plays have been
broadcast by the BBC; she also wrote 2 episodes (
Sarcophagus
and
Sand
)
for the TV series
Blake’s 7
. Some of her stories regularly get read on
Radio 4 Extra.

Lee writes in many styles in
and across many genres, including Horror, SF and Fantasy, Historical,
Detective, Contemporary-Psychological, Children and Young Adult. Her
preoccupation, though, is always people.

In 1992 she married the
writer-artist-photographer John Kaiine, her companion since 1987. They live on
the Sussex Weald, near the sea, in a house full of books and plants, with two
black and white overlords called cats.

Books by Tanith Lee

A Selection from her 93 titles

The Birthgrave Trilogy (The Birthgrave; Vazkor, son
of Vazkor, Quest for the White Witch)

The Vis Trilogy (The Storm Lord; Anackire; The White
Serpent)

The Flat Earth Opus (Night’s Master; Death’s Master;
Delusion’s Master; Delirium’s Mistress; Night’s Sorceries)

Don’t Bite the Sun

Drinking Sapphire Wine

The Paradys Quartet (The Book of the Damned; The
Book of the Beast; The Book of the Dead; The Book of the Mad)

The Venus Quartet (Faces Under Water; Saint Fire; A
Bed of Earth; Venus Preserved)

Sung in Shadow

A Heroine of the World

The Scarabae Blood Opera (Dark Dance; Personal
Darkness;

Darkness, I)

The Blood of Roses

When the Lights Go Out

Heart-Beast

Elephantasm

Reigning Cats and Dogs

The Unicorn Trilogy (Black Unicorn; Gold Unicorn;
Red Unicorn)

The Claidi Journals (Law of the Wolf Tower; Wolf
Star Rise, Queen of the Wolves, Wolf Wing)

The Piratica Novels (Piratica 1; Piratica 2;
Piratica 3)

The Silver Metal Lover

Metallic Love

The Gods Are Thirsty

Collections

Nightshades

Dreams of Dark and Light

Red As Blood – Tales From the Sisters Grimmer

Tamastara, or the Indian Nights

The Gorgon

Tempting the Gods

Hunting the Shadows

Sounds and Furies

Also Published
by Immanion Press

The Colouring Book Series

Greyglass

To Indigo

L’Amber

Killing Violets

Ivoria

Cruel Pink