Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (Albany (New York), 3 June 1930 - Berkeley (California), september 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy novels such as largely feminist mists of Avalon (The Mists of Avalon) and supporter of equality in writing.



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[verbergen]  *1 early life  ==Life Course[ Edit] == Born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the great depression, she began writing in 1949 and sold her first story to the magazine Woman Only Vortex Science Fiction in 1952. Bradley was on 5 July 1947 on her seventeenth baptized in Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal) in Hartford, Connecticut. She was married to Robert Alden Bradley from 26 October 1949 until their divorce on May 19, 1964. After her divorce she married fast with Walter h. Breen on 3 June 1964. They remained married until their divorce on 9 May 1990. During the 1950s she was introduced to the cultural and campaigning lesbian group the daughters of Bilitis [1]. In 1965 she earned a Bachelor of Arts at the Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. She then moved to Berkeley, California to get her diploma at the University of California, Berkeley between 1965 and 1967. Her oldest child, David r. Bradley[2], and her brother, Paul Edwin Zimmer[2] , were also writers of fantasy and science fiction. Her daughter, Moira Stern (Breen), is a professional harpist and singer. They also had another son with Patrick Breen. In 1966, she was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Also she was involved in the creation of some local groups including one in New York after her move to Staten Island.
 * 2 literary career
 * 3 Partial bibliography
 * 4 see also
 * 5 external link

Bradleys health went backwards for years and she died in 1999, four days after they had undergone a debilitating heart attack. Her ashes were scattered at Glastonbury Tor two months later in Somerset. ==Literary career[ Edit] == Bradley was the Editor of the long-running series of Sword and Sorceress anthologies in which the preference was for fantasy stories with original and non-traditional heroines of young, starting writers. Although they particularly encouraged young female authors, she also took contributions from men in her anthologies. They often had a large group of writers on visit in Berkeley. Bradley was working on the editing of her last edition of Sword and Sorceress until the week before her death.

They created the planet Darkover as the setting for her own series. They wrote a large number of Darkoververhalen and later worked together with other, mostly unknown, authors in producing anthologies. The Darkover novels can as fantasy with an SF undertones or vice versa be considered since Darkover was a lost Earth colony where PSI powers developed.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Probably her most famous single novel Mists of Avalon, the legend of Camelot from the point of view of Morganaand Guinevere . The book later grew into a series.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Under the pseudonyms Morgan Ives, Miriam Gardner, John Dexter and Lee Chapman, Marion Zimmer Bradley in the 1960s also produced several novels with gay and lesbian themes. Although fairly tame according to contemporary standards, they were at the time considered to be pornography. Bradley refused to reveal the titles.

<p lang="en" len="111" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Bradley fellow In 1966 founded the Society for Creative Anachronism on. they would also have figured out the name.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2000 she received the World Fantasy Award for her life's work. Before she had won the Locus Award in 1984 with Mists of Avalon (mists of Avalon). ==Partial bibliography<span class="mw-editsection" len="354" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Novels

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Story Collections
 * The Door Through Space (1961)
 * Seven from the Stars (1961)
 * The Colors Of Space (1963)
 * Falcons of Narabedla (1964)
 * Castle Terror (1965)
 * Souvenir or Monique (1967)
 * Bluebeard's Daughter (1968)
 * The Jewels of Arwen (1974) (novelette)
 * The Parting of Arwen (1974) (novelette)
 * The Endless Voyage (1975)
 * Drums of Darkness (1976)
 * The Brass Dragon (1978)
 * Ruins of Isis (1978)
 * The Catch Trap (1979)
 * The House Between the Worlds (1980)
 * Survey Ship (1980)
 * Night's Daughter (1985)
 * Lythande (1986)
 * Warrior Woman (1987)
 * The Firebrand (1987) en:Storms about Troy
 * Black Trillium (1990) (with Julian May and Andre Norton) nl:the black Trillium
 * Lady of the Trillium (1995) nl: Lady of the Trillium
 * Tiger Burning Bright (1995) (with Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton)
 * The Gratitude of Kings (1997) (with Elisabeth Waters)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Series
 * The Dark Intruder and Other Stories (1964)
 * Gray haven (1983) (with Paul Edwin Zimmer)
 * The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley (1985)
 * Jamie and Other Stories (1988)


 * Atlantis series
 * Web of Light (1983)
 * Web of Darkness (1983)
 * Avalon series
 * The Mists of Avalon (1979) en: mists of Avalon
 * Part 1 Mistress of magic (1994) English-language audiobook
 * Part 2 the Chief Queen(1994) English-language audiobook
 * Part 3 the King stag (1994) English-language audiobook
 * Part 4 the prisoner in the oak (1994) English-language audiobook
 * The Forest House (1993) (with Diana l. Paxson) nl: the House in the Forest
 * The Lady of Avalon (1997) (with Diana l. Paxson) en: Lady of Avalon
 * The Priestess of Avalon (2000) (with Diana l. Paxson) nl: priestess of Avalon
 * The Ancestors of Avalon (2004) (largely written by Diana L Paxson)
 * The Ravens of Avalon (2007) (largely written by Diana l. Paxson) nl: Raven of Avalon
 * Sword of Avalon (2009) (written by Diana l. Paxson) en: coat of arms of Avalon.
 * Out of Avalon (1998) (with Diana l. Paxson e. a) nl: beyond Avalon
 * Darkover series
 * The Planet Savers (1962)
 * The Sword of Aldones (1962)
 * The Bloody Sun (1964) en: The Red Sun
 * Stars of Danger (1965)
 * World Wreckers (1971) en: the world crushers
 * Darkover Landfall (1972) en: Darkover: world of Madness
 * The Spell Sword (1974)
 * The Heritage of Hastur (1975)
 * The Shattered Chain (1976)
 * The Forbidden Tower (1977)
 * The Winds of Darkover (1977)
 * Stormqueen! (1978) nl: Darkover: Lady of Storms
 * Two to Conquer (1980) en: The power of two
 * Sharra's Exile (1981)
 * Hawkmistress! (1982) nl: Haviksvrouwe
 * Thendara House (1983)
 * City of Sorcery (1984)
 * The Heirs of Hammerfell (1989)
 * Rediscovery (1993) (with Mercedes Lackey)
 * Exile's Song (1996) (with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
 * The Shadow Matrix (1997) (with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
 * Traitor's Sun (1999) (with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
 * The Fall of Neskaya (2001) (with Deborah j. Ross)
 * Zandru's Forge (2003) (with Deborah j. Ross)
 * A Flame in Hali (2004) (with Deborah j. Ross)
 * Survivors series (with Paul Edwin Zimmer)
 * Hunters of the Red Moon (1973)
 * The Survivors (1979)
 * Glenraven series (with Holly Lisle)
 * Glenraven (1996)
 * In the Rift (1998)
 * Colin McLaren series
 * Witch Hill (1972)
 * The Inheritor (1984)
 * Dark Satanic (1988)
 * Shadow's Gate series (with Rosemary Edghill)
 * Ghostlight (1995) nl: Spirits light
 * Witchlight (1996) en: Witches light
 * Gravelight (1997) nl: deadly light
 * Heartlight (1998)
 * Short stories
 * The heart of the Hill (with Diana l. Paxson) from the beam women of Avalon (compiled by Jennifer Roberson)
 * Novels under pseudonym
 * Written under the pseudonym Lee Chapman
 * I am a Lesbian (1962)
 * Writing under the pseudonym John Dexter
 * No Adam for Eve (1966)
 * Writing under the pseudonym Miriam Gardner
 * My Sister, My Love (1963)
 * Twilight Lovers (1964)
 * The Strange Women (1967)
 * Writing under the pseudonym Morgan Ives
 * Spare Her Heaven (1963)
 * Anything Goes (1964)
 * Knives of Desire (1966)
 * Poems
 * The Maenads (1978)