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Gimbling in the Wabe – Tangible Authors

Published on : 1 April, 201631 March, 2016 Published by : Sharon Browning

I am an extremely lucky person. At times when I am feeling particularly magnanimous, I would even say that I am blessed. I live in an existence where I am surrounded by books. I own books, I can download books electronically, I have a library nearby where I can not […]

On this day, March 5, in 1952, Margaret Astrid Lindholm (better known under the pen names of Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm) was born in Berkeley, California. As Robin Hobb, she is the author many works of epic traditional fantasy, including The Farseer Trilogy (which began with Assassin’s Apprentice), The Liveship Traders Trilogy, and the Tawny Man Trilogy. She also writes as Megan Lindholm, and her works under that name have been finalists for the Hugo award, the Nebula Award and the Endeavor award. She has won an Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Readers’ Award twice, and in 2014 she was a Guest of Honor at the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention in London. Today, she turns 69.

On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.

Gimbling in the Wabe – Tangible Authors

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