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  <name><![CDATA[Ellen Kushner]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[American writer of fantasy novels, and the host of the radio program Sound &amp; Spirit, distributed by Public Radio International.

She lives in New York City with her wife and sometime collaborator, Delia Sherman.  Her first novel, Swordspoint (1987), and its sequel (co-authored by Sherman) The Fall of the Kings (2002), are mannerpunk novels set in a nameless imaginary capital city, and its raffish district of Riverside, where swordsmen-for-hire ply their trade. She has written another sequel set 18 years after Swordspoint, called The Privilege of the Sword, which was published in July 2006. 

Kushner's second novel, Thomas the Rhymer, won the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award in 1991. She has also published short stories and poetry in various anthologies, including The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and the The Borderland Series of urban fantasy anthologies for teenage readers.]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Washington, DC </hometown>      
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Swordspoint]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ellen Kushner]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.96</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>500</ratings_count>
  <published>1987</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Privilege of the Sword]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ellen Kushner]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.85</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>353</ratings_count>
  <published>2006</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Thomas the Rhymer]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ellen Kushner]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.65</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>210</ratings_count>
  <published>1990</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Fall of The Kings]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ellen Kushner]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Delia Sherman]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.47</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>188</ratings_count>
  <published>2002</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Outlaws of Sherwood Forest (Choose Your Own Adventure, #47)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ellen Kushner]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.79</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>14</ratings_count>
  <published>1985</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Mystery of the Secret Room (Choose Your Own Adventure, #63)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ellen Kushner]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.25</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>12</ratings_count>
  <published>1986</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Statue of Liberty Adventure (Choose Your Own Adventure, #58)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ellen Kushner]]></name>
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  <average_rating>2.75</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>8</ratings_count>
  <published>1986</published>  
  
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        <book id="365200">
  <title><![CDATA[Knights of the Round Table (Choose Your Own Adventure, #86)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ellen Kushner]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.20</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>5</ratings_count>
  <published>1988</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Swords of Riverside]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ellen Kushner]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.50</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <published>2006</published>  
  
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        <book id="190958">
  <title><![CDATA[The Enchanted Kingdom (Choose Your Own Adventure, #56)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ellen Kushner]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <published>1986</published>  
  
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