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  <name><![CDATA[Tamora Pierce]]></name>
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  <fans-count type="integer">957</fans-count>
  <followers-count type="integer">829</followers-count>
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  <about><![CDATA[First of all, though I would love to join groups, I'm going to turn them all down.  I just don't have the time to take part, so please don't be offended if I don't join your group or accept an invitation.  I'm not snooty--I'm just up to my eyeballs in work and appearances!

Also, don't be alarmed by the number of books I've read.  When I get bored, I go through the different lists and rediscover books I've read in the past.  It's a very evil way to use up time when I should be doing other things.  Obviously, I've read a lot of books in 54 years!

I was born in South Connellsville, PA. My mother wanted to name me &quot;Tamara&quot; but the nurse who filled out my birth certificate misspelled it as &quot;Tamora&quot;. When I was 8 my family moved to California, where we lived for 6 years on both sides of the San Francisco peninsula.

I started writing stories in 6th grade. My interest in fantasy and science fiction began when I was introduced to ‘The Lord of the Rings’ by J. R. R. Tolkien and so I started to write the kind of books that I was reading. After my parents divorced, my mother took my sisters and me back to Pennsylvania in 1969. There I went to Albert Gallatin Senior High for 2 years and Uniontown Area Senior High School for my senior year.

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, I wrote the book that became The Song of the Lioness fantasy quartet. I sold some articles and 2 short stories and wrote reviews for a martial arts movie magazine.  At last the first book of the quartet, Alanna: The First Adventure was published by Atheneum Books in 1983.

Tim Liebe, who became my Spouse-Creature, and I lived in New York City with assorted cats and two parakeets from 1982 - 2006.  In 2006 we moved to Syracuse, New York, where we live now with assorted cats, a number of squirrels, birds, raccoons, skunks, opossums, and woodchucks visiting our very small yard.  As of 2009, I will have published 26 books, in addition to a number of short stories, articles, audio books, and a 6-episode comics series, &quot;White Tiger: a Hero's Compulsion,&quot; co-written with Tim Liebe.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[medieval history, Tolkein, Anne McCaffrey, comics, Star Trek (classic), martial arts, Barbara Hambly, Elizabeth I, samurai culture, Middle East/central Asia, true crime, military history, natural science, animals, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, feminism]]></influences>  <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>South Connellsville, Pennsylvania</hometown>  <born_at>12/13/1954</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tamora Pierce]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.22</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>6008</ratings_count>
  <published>1983</published>  
  
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        <book id="13835">
  <title><![CDATA[In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Tamora Pierce]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.19</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>5123</ratings_count>
  <published>1984</published>  
  
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        <book id="13837">
  <title><![CDATA[Lioness Rampant (Song of the Lioness, #4)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Tamora Pierce]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.20</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>4927</ratings_count>
  <published>1988</published>  
  
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        <book id="13830">
  <title><![CDATA[The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (Song of the Lioness, #3)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Tamora Pierce]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8596.Tamora_Pierce]]></link>
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  <average_rating>4.11</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>4908</ratings_count>
  <published>1986</published>  
  
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        <book id="13836">
  <title><![CDATA[Wild Magic (Immortals, #1)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Tamora Pierce]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8596.Tamora_Pierce]]></link>
    </author>
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  <average_rating>4.21</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>4318</ratings_count>
  <published>1992</published>  
  
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        <book id="153780">
  <title><![CDATA[Trickster's Queen (Daughter of the Lioness, #2)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Tamora Pierce]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.18</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3969</ratings_count>
  <published>2004</published>  
  
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        <book id="24094">
  <title><![CDATA[Wolf-Speaker (Immortals, #2)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Tamora Pierce]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.10</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3804</ratings_count>
  <published>1994</published>  
  
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        <book id="13833">
  <title><![CDATA[Emperor Mage (Immortals, #3)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Tamora Pierce]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.19</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3645</ratings_count>
  <published>1995</published>  
  
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        <book id="13834">
  <title><![CDATA[The Realms of the Gods (Immortals, #4)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Tamora Pierce]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8596.Tamora_Pierce]]></link>
    </author>
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  <average_rating>4.19</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3619</ratings_count>
  <published>1996</published>  
  
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        <book id="153784">
  <title><![CDATA[First Test (Protector of the Small, #1)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Tamora Pierce]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8596.Tamora_Pierce]]></link>
    </author>
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  <average_rating>4.09</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3703</ratings_count>
  <published>1999</published>  
  
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