Gateway Essentials: Tanith Lee
Hey, Gateway! So far your Essentials posts have been all about the SF – how ’bout some Fantasy for a change?
Your wish is our cooperation! We present, for your reading pleasure, Britain’s very own Grand Master of Horror and winner of the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, Tanith Lee . . .
Tanith Lee was born in London in 1947. She is the author of more than 70 novels and almost 300 short stories, and has also written radio plays for the BBC and two scripts for the cult television series Blake’s 7. Her first short story, ‘Eustace’, was published in 1968, and her first children’s novel The Dragon Hoard was published in 1971. In 1975 her adult fantasy epic The Birthgrave was published to international acclaim, and Lee maintained a prolific output in popular genre writing throughout her life.
She twice won the World Fantasy Award, and was a Guest of Honour at numerous science fiction and fantasy conventions including the 1984 World Fantasy Convention in Ottawa, Canada. In 2009 she was awarded the prestigious title of Grand Master of Horror, and in 2013 she was given the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. Tanith Lee was married to fellow author and artist John Kaiine. She died in May, 2015.
You can find more of Tanith Lee’s work via her Author page on the SF Gateway website and read about her in her entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
