Leonard Carpenter

Leonard Paul Carpenter (born February 6, 1948) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction. He writes as Leonard Carpenter and Leonard P. Carpenter.^[1]

Life

Carpenter was born in 1948^[1][2] in Chicago, but aside from a year in West Texas in childhood has lived most of his life in California.^[3] He married Cheryl Lynn Chrisman on October 10, 1970, in Alameda, California.^[4] They attended UC Berkeley, from which they both graduated, and had two daughters and a son. The Carpenters lived in Santa Maria, California from 1975 to 2003, and continued to reside on the California Central Coast thereafter. Cheryl, a schoolteacher, retired in 2013 and died January 24, 2014, after a year-long fight with cancer.^[5] Since her death Carpenter has traveled and worked on book projects.^[3]

Works

Among Carpenter's works are eleven Conan novels published by Tor Books. He has also written the science fiction novel Fatal Strain, later re-titled Biohacker, the historical fiction novel Lusitania Lost, and a number of short stories, articles and poems.

Carpenter's writing has been published in the magazines

Awards

Carpenter has been the recipient of the

Bibliography

Conan novels

• Conan the Renegade (1986)
• Conan the Raider (1986)
• Conan the Warlord (1988)
• Conan the Hero (1989)
• Conan the Great (1989)
• Conan the Outcast (1991)
• Conan the Savage (1992)
• Conan of the Red Brotherhood (1993)
• Conan, Scourge of the Bloody Coast (1994)
• Conan the Gladiator (1995)
• Conan, Lord of the Black River (1996)

Other

• Fatal Strain (2003 - electronic publication only)
• Biohacker (2020) (Re-issue of Fatal Strain)
• Lusitania Lost (2017)
• The Chronicles of Creighton Craven (unpublished)

Short stories

• "Dead Week" (1984)
• "The Ebbing" (1985)
• "Endangered Species" (1985)
• "Fearing's Fall" (1987)
• "Recrudescence" (1988)
• "The Eighth Plague" (1989)
• "The Hagen Project" (1990)
• "Torso" (1991)

Poetry

• "The Devourer" (1987)
• "The Egg" (1987)
• "The Fungoid Intruder" (1987)
• "The Priests" (1987)
• "The Combatants" (1988)
• "The Catcher" (1989)
• "The Hoard" (1989)
• "The Miser" (1989)

Nonfiction

• "Rondrini's Linguini and Clam Sauce" (1996)

References

External links

• Official website