Sunshine
There are places in the
world where darkness rules, where it's unwise to walk. But there hadn't
been any trouble out at the lake for years, and Sunshine just needed a
spot where she could be alone with her thoughts. Vampires never entered
her mind.
Until they found her...
Robin McKinley
born in Warren, Ohio, The United States
November 16, 1952
gender : female
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Kipling and Tolkien
About this author
Born in her mother's hometown of Warren, Ohio, Robin McKinley
grew up an only child with a father in the United States Navy. She
moved around frequently as a child and read copiously; she credits this
background with the inspiration for her stories.
Her passion for
reading was one of the most constant things in her childhood, so she
began to remember events, places, and time periods by what books she
read where. For example, she read Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book for the first time in California; The Chronicles of Narnia for the first time in New York; The Lord of the Rings for the first time in Japan; The Once and Future King for the first time in Maine. She still uses books to keep track of her life.
McKinley
attended Gould Academy, a preparatory school in Bethel, Maine, and
Dickinson College in 1970-1972. In 1975, she was graduated summa cum
laude from Bowdoin College. In 1978, her first novel, Beauty,
was accepted by the first publisher she sent it to, and she began her
writing career, at age 26. At the time she was living in Brunswick,
Maine. Since then she has lived in Boston, on a horse farm in Eastern
Massachusetts, in New York City, in Blue Hill, Maine, and now in
Hampshire, England, with her husband
Peter Dickinson
(also a writer, and with whom she co-wrote Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits in 2001) and two lurchers (crossbred sighthounds).
Over
the years she has worked as an editor and transcriber (1972-73),
research assistant (1976-77), bookstore clerk (1978), teacher and
counselor (1978-79), editorial assistant (1979-81), barn manager
(1981-82), free-lance editor (1982-85), and full-time writer. Other than
writing and reading books, she divides her time mainly between walking
her "hellhounds," gardening, cooking, playing the piano, homeopathy,
change ringing, and keeping her blog.
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