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Patricia A McKillip


(Patricia Anne McKillip)
USA flag (1948 - 2022)

Patricia Anne McKillip was born in Salem, Oregon (USA) on February 29, 1948. She started writing at 14, and according to the notes in the Riddlemaster trilogy, “she has been writing ever since – except for a brief detour when she thought she would be a concert pianist.” The House on Parchment Street has a neat quote about how she started writing – “In a fit of boredom one day when she was fourteen, she sat down in front of a window overlooking a stately medieval church and its graveyard and produced a thirty-page fairy tale.”

She won the World Fantasy Award in 1975 for The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, the Locus Award in 1980 for Harpist in the Wind, and the Balrog award in 1985 in the short fiction category for “A Troll and Two Roses”.

Author Patricia A. McKillip, 74, died May 6, 2022. 

 

Awards: Mythopoeic (2017), WFA (2008)  see all

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy
 
Series
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Kyreol
   1. Moon-Flash (1984)
   2. The Moon and the Face (1985)
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Winter Rose
   1. Winter Rose (1996)
   2. Solstice Wood (2006)
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Novels
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Collections
   To Weave a Web of Magic (2004) (with others)
   Harrowing the Dragon (2005)
   Dreams of Distant Shores (2016)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Books containing stories by Patricia A McKillip

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Awards
2017 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature : Kingfisher
2008 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement
2007 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature : Solstice Wood
2003 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel : Ombria in Shadow
2003 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature : Ombria in Shadow
1995 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature : Something Rich and Strange
1980 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel : Harpist in the Wind
1975 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel : The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

Award nominations
2017 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Dreams of Distant Shores
2013 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Wonders of the Invisible World
2011 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (nominee) : The Bards of Bone Plain
2011 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Bards of Bone Plain
2009 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (nominee) : The Bell at Sealey Head
2009 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Bell at Sealey Head
2007 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Solstice Wood
2006 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Od Magic
2006 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Od Magic
2006 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Harrowing the Dragon
2005 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (nominee) : Alphabet of Thorn
2005 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Gorgon in the Cupboard
2005 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Alphabet of Thorn
2004 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (nominee) : In the Forests of Serre
2004 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : In the Forests of Serre
2003 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Ombria in Shadow
2001 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Tower at Stony Wood
2001 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Tower at Stony Wood
1999 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (nominee) : Song for the Basilisk
1999 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Song for the Basilisk
1997 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (nominee) : Winter Rose
1997 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Winter Rose
1996 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Winter Rose
1996 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (nominee) : The Book of Atrix Wolfe
1996 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Book of Atrix Wolfe
1994 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (nominee) : The Cygnet and the Firebird
1994 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Cygnet and the Firebird
1992 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (nominee) : The Sorceress and the Cygnet
1992 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Sorceress and the Cygnet
1990 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (nominee) : The Changeling Sea
1989 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Changeling Sea
1988 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Fool's Run
1980 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Harpist in the Wind
1980 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Harpist in the Wind
1980 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Harpist in the Wind
1975 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (nominee) : The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
1975 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Forgotten Beasts of Eld


Patricia A McKillip recommends
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Saint Death's Daughter (2022)
(Saint Death, book 1)
C S E Cooney
"The writing is dense with poetry, festooned to the eyelids -- occasionally to the gills and other body-parts -- with fantastic imagery that comes together in the end in unexpected and entirely satisfying ways."
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The Four Profound Weaves (2020)
(Birdverse, book 1)
R B Lemberg
"R. B. Lemberg’s The Four Profound Weaves tells the journey of a pair of aged and appealing wanderers searching for magic, art, identity, and peace. Thought-challenging points-of-view weave together stark violence, intricate powers, and the musings of long and complicated lives. The Four Profound Weaves contains imagery that glows on the page."
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The Emerald Circus (2017)
(Circus , book 1)
Jane Yolen
"Jane Yolen’s The Emerald Circus is full of marvels. She introduces familiar acts and actors into her rings and then tricks us into seeing them from complex, unexpected angles. She turns toads into witches, Sir Lancelot into a 600 year old monk, Dorothy into a tightrope walker, and Emily Dickinson into a spacefarer. The stories themselves change between one reading and another, always revealing more, always at a different slant than before, in language that is rich, unholy, and, like the tales themselves, beautifully unpredictable. From Snow Queen to spaceship, The Emerald Circus is a delight."

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