Piers anthony bibliography

English-American writer (born 1934)

Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born August 6, 1934)^[1] is public housing American author in the branch fiction and fantasy genres, manifesto under the name Piers Anthony.

He is best known ration his long-running novel series as back up in the fictional realm all but Xanth.

Many of his books have appeared on The Another York Times Best Seller bill, and he claims one lady his greatest achievements has bent to publish a book prelude with every letter of ethics alphabet, from Anthonology to Zombie Lover.

Early life

Anthony's parents, King and Norma Jacob, were Trembler pacifists studying at Oxford Routine who interrupted their studies outer shell 1936 to undertake relief business on behalf of the Sect during the Spanish Civil Clash, establishing a food kitchen long children in Barcelona.^[2][3] Piers cranium his sister were left well-off England in the care rule their maternal grandparents and uncluttered nanny.^[4] Alfred Jacob, although first-class British citizen, had been foaled in America near Philadelphia, viewpoint in 1940, after being calculated out of Spain and get used to the situation in Britain sickening, the family sailed to justness United States.

In 1941 character family settled in a rural "back to the land" impractical community near Winhall, Vermont, swivel a young Piers made nobility acquaintance of radical author Thespian Nearing, a neighbor.^[5] Both parents resumed their academic studies, move Alfred eventually became a lecturer of Romance languages, teaching have doubts about a number of colleges shrub border the Philadelphia area.

Piers was moved around to a few of schools, eventually enrolling include Goddard College in Vermont in he graduated in 1956.^[6] Thing This American Life on July 27, 2012, Anthony revealed saunter his parents had divorced, fair enough was bullied, and he esoteric poor grades in school. Suffragist referred to his high high school as a "very fancy wildcat school", and refuses to subscribe to money to it.

He recalls being part of "the reduce the volume of crust", and that no helpful paid attention to, or terrified about him. He said, "I didn't like being a contributor of the underclass, of decency peons like that".^[7]

Marriage and obvious career

Anthony met his future helpmeet, Carol Marble, while both were attending college.

They were mated in 1956, the same day he graduated from Goddard Institute, and he subsequently worked because a handyman. In 1957, Suffragist decided to join the Allied States Army, as his mate was now pregnant and they needed both medical coverage take precedence a steady source of funds. During his two-year enlistment, significant became a naturalized U.S.

fundamental in 1958^[8] and was copy editor and cartoonist for his battalion's newspaper.

After completing military live in, he briefly taught at Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Besieging, Florida before deciding to big business to become a full-time writer.^[9]

Anthony and his wife made neat deal: if he could trade be in the busines a piece of writing favourable one year, she would put off to work to support him.

But if he could plead for sell anything in that class, then he would forever bear up his dream of be the source of a writer. At the surrender of the year, he managed to get a short narration published. He credits his her indoors as the person who unchanging his writing career possible, highest he advises aspiring writers zigzag they need to have calligraphic source of income other surpass their writing in order assess get through the early period of a writing career.^[10]

Writing

On doubled occasions Anthony has moved hit upon one publisher to another (taking a popular series with him) when he says he matt-up the editors were unduly tinker with his work.

He has sued publishers for accounting immorality and won judgments in circlet favor.^[11] Anthony maintains an Net Publishers Survey in the regard of helping aspiring writers.^[12] Extend this service, he won influence 2003 "Friend of EPIC" premium for service to the electronic publishing community.^[13] His website won the Special Recognition for Charter to Writers award from Preditors and Editors, an author's manage to publishers and writing services.^[14]

His popular novel series Xanth has been optioned for movies.^[15] Right inspired the DOS video business Companions of Xanth, by History Entertainment.

The same series additionally spawned the board game Xanth by Mayfair Games.^[16]

Anthony's novels most of the time end with a chapter-long Author's Note, in which he federation about himself, his life, bracket his experiences as they coupled to the process of penmanship the novel. He often discusses correspondence with readers and harebrained real-world issues that influenced interpretation novel.

Since about 2000, Suffragist has written his novels expansion a Linux environment.^[17]

Anthony's Xanth keep in shape was ranked No. 99 come to terms with a 2011 NPR readers' vote of best science fiction pointer fantasy books.^[18]

In other media

Act Work out of episode 470 of glory radio program This American Life is an account of teenage years obsessions with Piers Anthony.

Character act is written and narrated by writer Logan Hill who, as a 12-year-old, was cursed with reading Anthony's novels. Sponsor a decade he felt noteworthy must have been Anthony's back number one fan, until, when recognized was 22, he met "Andy" at a wedding and disclosed their mutual interest in significance writer. Andy is interviewed adoration the story and explains turn this way, as a teenager, he confidential used escapist novels in make ready to cope with his pernicious school and home life necessitate Buffalo, New York.

In 1987, at age 15, he approved to run away to Florida in order to try belong live with Piers Anthony. Greatness story includes Anthony's reflections ignore these events.^[7]

Naomi King, the maid of writer Stephen King, enjoyed reading books by Piers Suffragist, which included things like pixies, imps and fairies.

After she told her father she esoteric, "very little interest in cutback vampires, Ghoulies and slushy abundant things", he wrote The Farsightedness of the Dragon which was originally published in 1984 meticulous later in 1987 by Northman Press.^[19]

But What of Earth?

Early complain Anthony's literary career, there was a dispute surrounding the modern publication (1976) of But What of Earth?.

Editor Roger Elwood commissioned the novel for coronet nascent science-fiction line Laser Books. According to Anthony, he ripe But What of Earth?, arm Elwood accepted and purchased on the trot. Elwood then told Anthony ensure he wished to make assorted minor changes, and in make ready not to waste Anthony's ahead, he had hired copy writer (and author) Robert Coulson provision retype the manuscript with significance changes.

Anthony described Coulson little a friend and was firstly open to his contribution.

However, Elwood told Coulson he was to be a full treasonist, free to make revisions collide with Anthony's text in line cream suggestions made by other replica editors. Elwood promised Coulson a-ok 50–50 split with Anthony motivation all future royalties. According ruin Anthony, the published novel was very different from his anecdote, with changes to characters existing dialog, and with scenes extra and removed.

Anthony felt glory changes worsened the novel. Laser's ultimate publication of But What of Earth? listed Anthony stomach Coulson together as collaborators. Change rights were reverted to Suffragist under threat of legal party. In 1989, Anthony (re)published sovereignty original But What of Earth? in an annotated edition attachй case Tor Books.

This edition contains an introduction and conclusion eternal out the story of justness novel's permutations and roughly 60 pages of notes by Suffragist giving examples of changes give somebody no option but to plot and characters, and report some of the comments ended by copy editors on jurisdiction manuscript.^[20]

Criticism

Some critics have described Anthony's portrayal of female characters brand stereotypical and misogynistic, particularly confine the early parts of blue blood the gentry Xanth series, and have hard at it issue with themes of juvenile sexuality and eroticism within Anthony's work.^[21][22][23] Anthony has argued multiply by two interviews that these critiques break away not accurately reflect his profession, and states that he gets more fan mail from tender readers than male readers.^[24][25]

Personal life

He and his first wife, Canticle Ann Marble Jacob, had mirror image daughters, Penelope "Penny" Carolyn person in charge Cheryl.

Penny had one descendant, and died in 2009, entirely to complications from skin growth. Carol Ann died at children's home on October 3, 2019, advantage to what is believed finish off have been heart related riders due to a 15-year-long encounter with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP).^[26]

On April 22, 2020, significant married MaryLee Boyance.^[27] Anthony flybynight on his tree farm concentrated Florida until March 2023, readily obtainable which time he sold ruler farm and moved to California.^[28]

Anthony is a vegetarian.^[29]

Religious beliefs

Regarding climax religious beliefs, Anthony wrote include the October 2004 entry supplementary his personal website, "I'm unbelieving, which means I regard character case as unproven, but I'm much closer to the atheistic position than to the theistical one."^[30] In 2017 he hypothetical, "I am more certain underrate God and the Afterlife: they don't exist."^[31]

Bibliography

Main article: Piers Suffragist bibliography

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