Nancy Springer

Nancy Springer grew up in western Pennsylvania helping her parents tend a small motel they owned. After graduating from college in 1970, she began writing because "[I had] a lot of people galloping around on horses inside my head. I would lie in bed till noon just daydreaming. Got worried about myself. Thought if I could offload some of the daydreams onto paper I might be able to function more normally." [interview]

According to the interview, her first two books (The White Hart and The Silver Sun were written in scraps of time taken between caring for her children, her Pastor/husband, and their home. After several years of treatment by doctors and psychiatrists to help her "adjust" to her roles, she told her husband that she was going to write for two hours every day. She marks this decision as the beginning of identifying as a writer and of discovering herself.

The Silver Sun first edition paperback features blurbs from Anne McCaffrey and Marion Zimmer Bradley:

"Three cheers ... for a genuinely new fantasy writer... someone special in the fantasy field" -- Anne McCaffrey

"It has everything; a believable fantasy world...a lovely, poignant book." -- Marion Zimmer Bradley

She has published over 40 books in fantasy, poetry, mystery, and children's genres. [Author's Website]

In 1995 she won the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery Book for Toughing It. In 1996 she won the Edgar Award for Best Juvenille Mystery Book for Looking for Jamie Bridger. She was nominated in the Juvenille category in 2007 and 2010. [Edgars]

Works

Books of the Isle:

• The White Hart (1978)
• The Silver Sun (1980) (Based on an earlier work, "The Book of the Suns", which was copyrighted in 1977 but apparently never found publication.)
• The Sable Moon (1981)
• The Black Beast (1982)
• The Silver Swan (1982)

Bond trilogy:

• Madbond (1987)
• Mindbond (1987)
• Godbond (1988)

• Wings of Flame (1985)
• Chains of Gold (1986)
• A Horse to Love (1987)
• The Hex Witch of Seldom (1988)
• Not on a White Horse (1988)
• Apocalypse (1989)
• Red Wizard (1990)
• Damnbanna 1992)
• The Blind God Is Watching (1994)
• Larque on the Wing (AvoNova, 1994) (co-winner of the 1995 James Tiptree, Jr. Award
• Metal Angel (1994)
• Metal (1994)
• Fair Peril (1996)
• I Am Mordred: A Tale from Camelot (1998)
• Prom Night (1999)
• Plumage (2000)
• I Am Morgan le Fey (2001)

Collections:

• Chance — and Other Gestures of the Hand of Fate (1987 collection)

References

• Author's website: http://www.nancyspringer.com/
• Author's page at Penguin Books: http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000015705,00.html
• Interview with the author: http://www.books-for-sale.org/313/interview-with-author-nancy-springer/ (retrieved 5/17/2010)
• The Edgars database: http://www.theedgars.com/edgarsDB/index.php

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