Piers Anthony
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born
August 06, 1934
gender
male
place of birth
Oxford, The United Kingdom
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Science Fiction & Fantasy
about this author
Though he spent the first four years of his life in England, Piers never returned to live in his country of birth after moving to Spain and immigrated to America at age six. After graduating with a B.A. from Goddard College, he married one of his fellow students and and spent fifteen years in an assortment of professions before he began writing fiction full-time.
Piers is a self-proclaimed environmentalist and lives on a tree farm in Florida with his wife. They have two grown daughters.
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""I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers." "
— Piers Anthony
— Piers Anthony
"I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers."
— Piers Anthony
— Piers Anthony
""I asked whether I have a soul." the monster said seriously.
Again Bink had to control his reaction. A year's service for a philosophical question? "What did he tell you?"
"That only those who possess souls are concerned with them.""
— Piers Anthony (A Spell for Chameleon)
Again Bink had to control his reaction. A year's service for a philosophical question? "What did he tell you?"
"That only those who possess souls are concerned with them.""
— Piers Anthony (A Spell for Chameleon)
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