Caroline Stevermer





Caroline Stevermer

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Caroline Stevermer grew up miles from anywhere on a dairy farm in southeastern Minnesota. She has a sister and two brothers. After high school, she attended Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where she earned a B.A. degree in the history of art. She knew she wanted to be a writer when she was eight years old. She began by writing stories in her school notebooks. (They were not good. Many were not even finished. She persisted.)

By the time she graduated from college, she knew she would need to earn money in other ways, but she kept on writing. Her first professional sale was published by Ace in 1980. In the years since, she has had a variety of jobs and kept on writing. She likes libraries and museums. Her favorite painter is Ni...more


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via iPlayer on BBC Radio 4 Extra on Sunday, March 25 -- the radio adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones' WITCH WEEK:

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Average rating: 3.80 · 14,658 ratings · 1,725 reviews · 18 distinct works
A College of Magics (A Coll...
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 1,480 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions
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A Scholar of Magics
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 468 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
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Magic Below Stairs
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 239 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions
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When The King Comes Home
3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
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River Rats
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3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions
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Scholarly Magics
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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The Serpent's Egg
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The Alchemist: Death of a B...
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The Duke and the Veil
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A College of Magics A Scholar of Magics
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“How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.”
Caroline Stevermer, Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot

“Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning?

He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant."

You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant."

He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be?

Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand." Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.”
Caroline Stevermer, A College of Magics

“You must form your own fashions in a way which demonstrates that you flout the standards from knowledge, not from ignorance. . . But I may flout the standards? . . . Of course. What do you think standards are for?”
Caroline Stevermer, A College of Magics

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