Marion Zimmer was born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the Great Depression. As a child, she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy stories. She began writing them herself in 1949 and sold her first story to Vortex in 1952. She also married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Early in her career, she used pseudonyms for stories she wrote outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels such as I Am a Lesbian (1962). In 1964 she divorced her first husband and married numismatist Walter H. Breen. In 1965 she received her B.A. degree from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. She then moved to Berkeley, California, to pursue graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1966, she co-founded the Society for Creative Anachronism. In 1967 she moved to Staten Island, New York. She separated from her second husband in 1979 but remained married and continued a business relationship, until 1990 when he was arrested on child molestation charges and they divorced. After suffering declining health for years, she died in Berkeley in 1999. In 2000, she was awarded the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Author details
- Born:
- June 3, 1930
- Died:
- Sept. 25, 1999
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Marion Zimmer was born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the Great Depression. As a child, she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy stories. She began writing them herself in 1949 and sold her first story to Vortex in 1952. She also married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Early in her career, she used pseudonyms for stories she wrote outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels such as I Am a Lesbian (1962). In 1964 she divorced her first husband and married numismatist Walter H. Breen. In 1965 she received her B.A. degree from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. She then moved to Berkeley, California, to pursue graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1966, she co-founded the Society for Creative Anachronism. In 1967 she moved to Staten Island, New York. She separated from her second husband in 1979 but remained married and continued a business relationship, until 1990 when he was arrested on child molestation charges and they divorced. After suffering declining health for years, she died in Berkeley in 1999. In 2000, she was awarded the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement.
Books by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Walter M. Miller Jr., Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Keith Laumer, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg, Frank Herbert, Ben Bova, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Frederik Pohl, Alfred Bester, Clifford D. Simak, Richard Matheson, H. Beam Piper, Annie Proulx, Poul Anderson, Hal Clement, Catherine Lucille Moore, Robert E. Howard, Robert Sheckley, Harry Harrison, Algis Budrys, Philip José Farmer, Frank M. Robinson, August Derleth, Fritz Leiber, James Blish, L. Ron Hubbard, Edgar Wallace, Manly Wade Wellman, Steve Rasnic Tem, C. M. Kornbluth, Dean Ing, Gordon R. Dickson, Terry Carr, Jerome Bixby, Edmond Hamilton, Jack Williamson, Clark Ashton Smith, William F. Nolan, Ron Goulart, Henry Kuttner, Lester del Rey, Andre Norton (duplicate), R. A. Lafferty, E. C. Tubb, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Karen Anderson, Judith Merril, Sydney J. Van Scyoc, William Tenn, Evelyn E. Smith, Tom Godwin, Laurence M. Janifer, Alan E. Nourse, Emil Petaja, Katherine MacLean, Edgar Pangborn, Helen M. Urban, Rhoda Broughton, Charles L. Fontenay, Milton Lesser, Melanie Tem, Sonya Dorman, Miriam Allen deFord, John D. MacDonald, Robert F. Young, Florence Verbell Brown, Dorothy Quick, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Barbara Constant, Therese Windser, T. D. Hamm, Lilith Lorraine, Ann Warren Griffith, Frank W. Coggins, L. Taylor Hansen, Louis Trimble, Helen Huber, Mari Wolf, Anne Walker , Carl Jacobi, Lynn Venable, Mary Carlson, Ted White: One Hundred
One Hundred
by Walter M. Miller Jr., Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, and 83 others
