R. A. MacAvoy
Roberta Ann (R. A.) MacAvoy (born December 13, 1949) is an American fantasy and science fiction author. Several of her books draw on Celtic or Zen themes. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1984.
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Biography
R. A. MacAvoy was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Case Western Reserve University and received a B.A. in 1971. She worked from 1975 to 1978 as an assistant to the financial aid officer of Columbia College of Columbia University and from 1978 to 1982 as a computer programmer at SRI International before turning to full-time writing in 1982. She married Ronald Allen Cain in 1978.[1]
R. A. MacAvoy was diagnosed with Dystonia (a neurological movement disorder in which sustained muscle contractions cause twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures) following the publication of her Lens of the World series in the early 1990s. She now has this disorder manageable and has returned to writing.
Bibliography
The Black Dragon series
- Tea with the Black Dragon (1983)
- Twisting the Rope (1986)
The Damiano series
- Damiano (1983)
- Damiano's Lute (1984)
- Raphael (1984)
- omnibus edition titled A Trio for Lute
The Lens of the World series
- Lens of the World (1990)
- King of the Dead (1991)
- Winter of the Wolf [vt The Belly of the Wolf] (1993)
Ewen Young
- The Go-Between (2005) – Amazon Shorts e-book, republished with editorial changes as In Between (2009)
- Death and Resurrection (2011) – includes The Go-Between/In Between
Other novels
- The Book of Kells (1985)
- The Grey Horse (1987)
- The Third Eagle (1989)
References
- ↑ D. Jones & J.D. Jorgenson (eds.) Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, vol. 59, pp. 248–250. Gale Research, 1998.
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- 1949 births
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American fantasy writers
- American science fiction writers
- John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer winners
- Living people
- American women novelists
- Women science fiction and fantasy writers
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers