Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | |
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Born | Berkeley, California, U.S. | September 15, 1942
Pen name | Quinn Fawcett, Trystam Kith, Terry Nelson Bonner, T. C. F. Hopkins, Camellia Gabor, Vanessa Pryor |
Occupation | Author |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Education | San Francisco State College |
Genre | Science fiction, horror |
Notable works | The Saint-Germain Cycle |
Spouse |
Donald Simpson
(m. 1969; div. 1982) |
Website | |
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (born September 15, 1942) is an American writer. She is known for her series of historical horror novels about the vampire Count Saint-Germain.
Biography
Yarbro was born in Berkeley, California. She attended Berkeley schools through high school followed by three years at San Francisco State College (now University).
In November 1969 she married Donald Simpson and divorced in February 1982. She has no children.
Writing for over 45 years, Yarbro has worked in a wide variety of genres, from
Yarbro's contribution to the horror genre has been recognised in a variety of ways: she was named a Grand Master at the World Horror Convention in 2003, and in 2005 the International Horror Guild named her a "Living Legend".
In 2016, she reported that on average, she wrote three to four books and one or two short stories and/or essays a year. She wrote six hours per day, six days per week except when traveling. Five days a week she spent three to four hours doing research.[6]
Aside from writing, she has worked as a cartographer, has
Pseudonyms
- Quinn Fawcett, for projects coauthored with Bill Fawcett
- Trystam Kith, for the two volume Trouble in the Forest historical fantasy series featuring vampire antagonists
- Terry Nelson Bonner, for the fifth volume of The Making of Australia series)
- T. C. F. Hopkins, for historical nonfiction
- Camille Gabor, for the high fantasy series, The Vildecaz Talents
- Vanessa Pryor, for the romance novel Taste of Wine
The Michael teachings
Messages from Michael is the first in a series of four books recounting three-decade-long "conversation" between a group of friends centered around Sarah Chambers (1937≠1998) with a channeled entity and spiritual teacher that has come to be known as
Yarbro's book presented a heavily fictionalized version of Sarah Chambers' group, which gave Chambers the alias of "Jessica Lansing". The three subsequent books more contain edited channeling transcripts, along with background material.
Bibliography
Footnotes
- ^ ":: ihg ::International Horror Guild :: ihg ::". Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
- ^ Macmillan. "Chelsea Quinn Yarbro". Macmillan. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
- ^ "Yarbro, Wilson Win Lifetime Horror Award". Horror Writers Association Blog. 25 January 2009. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
- ^ "World Fantasy Awards Home Page". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
- ^ World Fantasy Awards Archived December 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "◊◊Chelsea Quinn Yarbro◊◊". Retrieved 18 January 2016.
- ^ "More about Chelsea Quinn Yarbro". Retrieved 18 January 2016.
- ISSN 1052-9438.
References
- ISBN 0-88184-708-9.
- ISBN 0-312-13486-X.
- ISBN 0-380-80333-X
- ISBN 0-670-80902-0.
External links
- Official website
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro at Library of Congress, with 79 library catalog records
- Quinn Fawcett (joint pseudonym of Yarbro and Bill Fawcett) at LC Authorities, with 12 records, and at WorldCat