Tanith Lee
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born
September 19, 1947
gender
female
place of birth
The United Kingdom
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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Young Adult
about this author
Tanith Lee is a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy.
She is the author of at least 54 novels and 188 short stories, a children's picture book (Animal Castle) and many poems. She has also written two episodes of BBC science fiction series Blake's 7.
Lee is the daughter of two ballroom dancers. Despite a persistent rumour, she is not the daughter of Bernard Lee (actor who played "M" in the James Bond series of films of the 1960s). Tanith Lee married author John Kaiine in 1992.
Lee worked as a file clerk, an assistant librarian, a shop assistant and a waitress before becoming a full time writer. Her first short story, Eustace, was published in 1968. Her first novel (for children) was The Dragon Hoard,...more
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Wolf Tower (Claidi Journals 1) by Tanith Lee avg rating 3.76 — 676 ratings — published 1998 8 editions |
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Wolf Star (Claidi Journals 2) by Tanith Lee avg rating 3.65 — 500 ratings — published 2000 6 editions |
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Wolf Queen (Claidi Journals 3) by Tanith Lee avg rating 3.67 — 456 ratings — published 2001 6 editions |
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The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee avg rating 4.10 — 354 ratings — published 1981 7 editions |
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White As Snow by Tanith Lee avg rating 3.69 — 385 ratings — published 2000 3 editions |
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Wolf Wing (Claidi Journals 4) by Tanith Lee avg rating 3.73 — 338 ratings — published 2002 4 editions |
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Black Unicorn by Tanith Lee avg rating 3.78 — 302 ratings — published 1991 10 editions |
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Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee avg rating 4.29 — 256 ratings — published 1999 2 editions |
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Red as Blood by Tanith Lee avg rating 3.99 — 241 ratings — published 1983 2 editions |
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Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas by Tanith Lee avg rating 3.76 — 249 ratings — published 2004 5 editions |
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"Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root."
— Tanith Lee (Delirium's Mistress: A Novel of the Flat Earth)
— Tanith Lee (Delirium's Mistress: A Novel of the Flat Earth)
"How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on."
— Tanith Lee (Delirium's Mistress: A Novel of the Flat Earth)
— Tanith Lee (Delirium's Mistress: A Novel of the Flat Earth)
"It was the forest’s fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps..."
— Tanith Lee
— Tanith Lee
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