Catherynne M. Valente




Catherynne M. Valente

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May 05, 1979

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Seattle, WA, The United States

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Catherynne M. Valente was born on Cinco de Mayo, 1979 in Seattle, WA, but grew up in in the wheatgrass paradise of Northern California. She graduated from high school at age 15, going on to UC San Diego and Edinburgh University, receiving her B.A. in Classics with an emphasis in Ancient Greek Linguistics. She then drifted away from her M.A. program and into a long residence in the concrete and camphor wilds of Japan.

She currently lives in Maine with her partner, two dogs, and three cats, having drifted back to America and the mythic frontier of the Midwest.




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Was awakened at 2 and cannot get back to sleep. Everything is very silent in our room, and my stomach is empty. How I wish the streetside blini stands were 24 hours. Oh my god, streetside blini.

One of the thoughts I kept turning around in my head today was about fantasy literature and the war. WWII is a favorite garden patch for anchoring Western fantasy in historical and moral authority, from Nar... ...more
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avg rating: 4.09 | 937 ratings | 302 reviews | 19 distinct works | 40 fans
In the Night Garden In the Night Garden (The Orphan's Tales, #1)
by Catherynne M. Valente
avg rating 4.34 — 357 ratings — published 2006
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In the Cities of Coin and Spic... In the Cities of Coin and Spice (The Orphan's Tales, #2)
by Catherynne M. Valente
avg rating 4.34 — 178 ratings — published 2007
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Palimpsest Palimpsest
by Catherynne M. Valente
avg rating 3.77 — 169 ratings — published 2009
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The Labyrinth The Labyrinth
by Catherynne M. Valente
avg rating 4.07 — 29 ratings — published 2004
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Yume No Hon: The Book of Dream... Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams
by Catherynne M. Valente
avg rating 3.80 — 25 ratings — published 2005
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Oracles: A Pilgrimage Oracles: A Pilgrimage
by Catherynne M. Valente
avg rating 3.94 — 16 ratings — published 2005
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The Grass-Cutting Sword The Grass-Cutting Sword
by Catherynne M. Valente
avg rating 3.41 — 17 ratings — published 2006
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A Guide to Folktales in Fragil... A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects
by Catherynne M. Valente
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 2008
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Apocrypha Apocrypha
by Catherynne M. Valente
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 2005
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Music of a Proto-Suicide Music of a Proto-Suicide
by Catherynne M. Valente
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2004
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"... I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong."

'A King can be better than that," the Prince insisted.

"And so we all begin, determined to better our fathers' performances, knowing we can change the very nature of humanity, make it better, cleaner. But then daggers strike in the night, and peasants revolt, and all manner of atrocities become a necessity as breakfast. Only Princes believe in the greater good. Kings know there is only Reign, and all things may be committed in its holy name..."
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"...what maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?"
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"We are a Body of contradiction, flesh-full and fleshless."
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