Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee was born in 1947, didn’t learn to read till nearly 8, and started to write aged 9—and she hasn’t stopped since. In 1975, DAW Books published her epic fantasy The Birthgrave (soon due for re-release from Norilana) and so rescued Lee from lots of silly jobs at which she was extravagantly bad. Since then, she’s written more than 90 novels and collections plus almost 300 short stories. She lives on the S.E coast of England with her husband, writer/artist John Kaiine, in a house full of books and plants, under the firm claw of two cats.