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Piers Anthony (1934 - )
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For light reading try starting with the first book in The Magic of Xanth series which is "A Spell for Chameleon"
For a little more challenge try "The Incarnations of Immortality" starting with "On a Pale Horse".
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Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born August 6, 1934 in Oxford, England) is a writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony.
He has written many novels and short stories, but is most famous for his long-running series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.
Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list. He is one of the most prolific science fiction/fantasy authors of all time. He has claimed that one of his greatest achievements has been to publish a book for every letter of the alphabet, from Anthonology to Zombie Lover.
Anthony's family emigrated to the United States from Britain while he was a child. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in his twenties. After completing a two year stint in military service, he briefly taught public school before becoming a fulltime writer. Anthony currently lives with his wife on a tree farm which he owns in Florida. He is a vegetarian, an agnostic, a proud liberal, a workaholic, and dislikes travel (hence his rarity at conventions). After a series of miscarriages, he and his wife had two daughters. He also has one grandchild.
Anthony believes he was blacklisted at one time, and thus that it is his duty to help aspiring writers circumvent traditional publishing houses and their stranglehold on the industry.
On multiple occasions he has moved from one publisher to another (taking a profitable hit series with him), when he felt the editors were unduly tampering with his work. He has even sued publishers for accounting malfeasance and won judgments in his favor.
He also maintains an ([1]) Internet Publishers Survey, in the interest of helping aspiring writers. For this service, he has won the Special Recognition for Service to Writers award from "Preditors and Editors", an author's guide to publishers and writing services.
At one time, he was also a venture capitalist who invested in an internet publishing house which has since been bought out by Random House. Other than his tree farm, he has also been a venture capitalist in vegetarian foodstuffs related technologies.
Many of his popular novels have been optioned for movies at various times, though none have carried through. One has however been made into a video game.
Piers Anthony's novels usually end with a chapter-long Author's Note, in which he talks about himself, his life, and his experiences as they related to the process of writing the novel. He often discusses correspondence with readers and any real-world issues that influenced the novel.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Anthony
LyekkaMarengo November 17th, 2006 06:36 AM PST