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I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.
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Birth: | 28th August, 1951 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist, Screenwriter |
Barbara Hambly was born in San Diego, California and grew up in Montclair, California. She is an American novelist and screenwriter. She has a bestselling mystery series featuring a free man of color, a musician and physician, in New Orleans in the antebellum years. She also wrote a novel about Mary Todd Lincoln. Her science fiction novels occur within an explicit multiverse, as well as within previously existing settings. Her first published novel was Time of the Dark. Her works have been nominated for many awards in the fantasy and horror fiction categories, winning a Locus Award for Best Horror Novel Those Who Hunt the Night and the Lord Ruthven Award for fiction for its sequel, Travelling With the Dead.
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