Don Callander
{{short description|American novelist}}
{{notability|bio|date=August 2012}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Don Callander
| birth_date = 1930
| birth_place = Minnesota, United States
| death_date = {{Death year and age|2008|1930|07}}
| death_place = Orange City, Florida, United States
| period = 1992–2000
| genre = Fantasy
| spouse = Margaret Callander (unknown–2008)
Mary Lee Omohundro (1952–unknown)
| children = 4
}}
Donald Bruce Callander (1930–2008) was an American fantasy novel author, photographer, editor and graphic artist. He authored Pyromancer, a tale of young wizard-in-training Douglas Brightglade, and fourteen other novels.
Personal
Born in Minnesota, Callander joined the U.S. Navy after high school, serving four years of active duty during the Korean War, and then 20 years in the U.S. Naval Reserve. In 1952, Callander married Mary Lee Omohundro and moved to Washington, D.C., where he began a 30-year career as a writer, photographer, editor and graphic artist with the American Automobile Association.
Following his retirement, Callander settled with his second wife, Margaret, in Orange City, Florida, where he died on Friday, July 25, 2008.{{cite news |title=Donald B. Callander |url=http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/082008/08102008/401586 |format=obituary |work=Fredericksburg.com |date=2008-08-10 |access-date=2008-08-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730124212/http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/082008/08102008/401586 |archive-date=2012-07-30 }}
Books
(All books published/reissued by [http://www.mundania.com/ Mundania Press] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080813214842/http://www.mundania.com/ |date=2008-08-13 }} 2013/2014)
- Teddybear, Teddybear (2014)
- Star Warrior (2014)
- The Last Cruise of the USS Pocahontas (2014)
=Mancer series=
- Pyromancer (1992)
- Aquamancer (1993)
- Geomancer (1994)
- Aeromancer (1997)
- Marbleheart (1998)
- The Reluctant Knight (2014)
=Dragon Companion series=
- Dragon Companion (1994)
- Dragon Rescue (1995)
- Dragon Tempest (1998)
- Dragon Winter (2014)
=Warlock series=
- Warlock's Bar & Grille (2000)
- Warlock's All & Sundry (2014)
References
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External links
- {{isfdb name|id=Don_Callander|name=Don Callander}}
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Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:American fantasy writers
Category:American male novelists
Category:Writers from Minnesota
Category:20th-century American male writers
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