Lynn Flewelling

{{short description|American fantasy fiction author|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| birth_place = Presque Isle, Maine, U.S.

| birth_name = Lynn Elizabeth Beaulieu

| occupation = Fantasy author

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| genre = Fantasy

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| notableworks = Nightrunner Series

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Lynn Flewelling (born Lynn Elizabeth Beaulieu on October 20, 1958) is an American fantasy fiction author.

Biography

Born at Presque Isle, Flewelling grew up in northern Maine, United States.{{Citation needed|reason=primary, secondary or tertiary citation needed to prove claim |date=May 2014}} She has worked as a teacher, a house painter, a necropsy technician{{Citation needed|reason=need verifiable citation for claim|date=May 2014}}, and a freelance editor and journalist. She has been married to Douglas Flewelling since 1981,{{cite web|url=http://www.sff.net/people/lynn.flewelling/a.biography.html|title=Flewelling|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106032128/http://www.sff.net/people/lynn.flewelling/a.biography.html|archive-date=2014-01-06}} and has two sons. She currently lives in Redlands, California, where she continues to write, and offers lectures and creative writing workshops at the University of Redlands.{{cite web|url=http://www.sff.net/people/Lynn.Flewelling/a.biography.html|title=Flewelling|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106032128/http://www.sff.net/people/lynn.flewelling/a.biography.html|archive-date=2014-01-06}} Flewelling is a convert to Thiền Buddhism{{Citation needed|reason=cite reference to prove claim of conversion|date=May 2014}}, having taken her vows with Engaged Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, and is a practitioner of Buddhist meditation.{{cite web|url=http://thehathorlegacy.com/a-game-of-questions-with-lynn-flewelling/|title=A Game of Questions with Lynn Flewelling! - The Hathor Legacy|date=31 January 2011|publisher=}} Flewelling's writings promote feminism and LGBT causes, having said in relation to these topics, "I’ve always believed that people are people, and it’s wrong to discriminate against them just because of what gender or group they fall into."{{cite web |url=http://michelefogal.com/blog/author-interview-lynn-flewelling |title=Author Interview with Lynn Flewelling | Michele Fogal |access-date=2013-08-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053359/http://michelefogal.com/blog/author-interview-lynn-flewelling |archive-date=2013-09-21 }}

Writings

Her first Nightrunner novel, Luck in the Shadows, was a Locus Editor's Pick for Best First Novel and a finalist for the Compton Crook Award. Her novels Traitor's Moon (2000) and Hidden Warrior (2004) were both finalists for the [http://www.spectrumawards.org Spectrum Award]. Her novels are currently published in 13 countries, and in 2005, the first volume of the Japanese-language version of Luck in the Shadows{{Citation needed|reason=primary, secondary or tertiary citation needed to prove claim |date=May 2014}} was published. Flewelling is accessible to readers through her website, her LiveJournal blog, her Yahoo! group, and numerous guest appearances at conventions including Comic-Con and Smith College's ConBust.{{cite web|url=http://sophia.smith.edu/conbust|title=Conbust 2016|publisher=}} Her work has been praised by other fantasy authors, including George R. R. Martin,{{cite web|url=http://www.georgerrmartin.com/and-before-that/|title=And Before That - George R.R. Martin|publisher=}} Orson Scott Card,{{cite web|url=http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2006-09-03.shtml|title=Invincible, Prospero, Bone Doll, and "romance" - Uncle Orson Reviews Everything|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2006-11-26.shtml|title=News, Schools, Mimi's, Lids, Christmas Music, Books As Gifts - Uncle Orson Reviews Everything|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2007-12-21.shtml|title=Uncle Orson's list of emergency Christmas gifts|publisher=}} Elizabeth Hand,{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/2002/04/07/the-feminization-of-sf-culture-from-judith-merrill-to-angela-carter-and-beyond-elizabeth-hand/55aded61-468d-42c5-8fcd-719d4f9631db/ |title=The feminization of sf culture, from Judith Merrill to Angela Carter and beyond. Elizabeth Hand |last=Wonder Women |newspaper=Washington Post |date=April 7, 2002 |access-date=May 3, 2016}} Robin Hobb, and Katherine Kurtz.{{Cite web |url=http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553577235 |title=Random House, Inc |access-date=2010-02-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403023227/http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553577235 |archive-date=2012-04-03 |url-status=dead }} Independent film company Csquared Pictures has acquired film rights to the first three books in the Nightrunner series,{{cite web|url=http://www.csquaredpictures.com|title=csquaredpictures.com|publisher=}} but they have not yet started production.

Flewelling has cited a number of authors as being major influences on her work, including Ray Bradbury, William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, Homer, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Mary Renault, Anne Rice, and Arthur Conan Doyle, and has also expressed her admiration for works by additional authors, including Isaac Asimov, William Kotzwinkle, Ellen Kushner, C. S. Lewis, Toni Morrison, Shirley Jackson, E. B. White, J. M. Barrie, and Michael Moorcock.Flewelling, Lynn. [http://www.strangehorizons.com/2001/20010409/flewelling.shtml "Interview: Lynn Flewelling"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080727022714/http://www.strangehorizons.com/2001/20010409/flewelling.shtml |date=2008-07-27 }}, "Strange Horizons", April 9, 2001.

Flewelling's work has frequently promoted LGBT themes as well as topics related to gender. The protagonists of the Nightrunner books are both bisexual, and Flewelling has stated their creation was in response to the near-absence of LGBT characters in the genre and marginalization of existing ones. The Tamir Triad, combining elements of psychological drama with ghost story horror, features a protagonist who transforms from one sex and gender to the other.Petty, Anne (2007). "Mythprint", Vol. 44, No. 4. Accessed at [http://www.sff.net/people/Lynn.Flewelling/s.triad.review.html "www.sff.net/people/Lynn.Flewelling/s.triad.review.html"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612180533/http://sff.net/people/Lynn.Flewelling/s.triad.review.html |date=2010-06-12 }} Flewelling's works have drawn academic attention in relation to these themes.Battis, Jes (projected 2010). [http://www.authorjesbattis.com/cv.pdf "Queer Break-Ins: Erotic Service in the Novels of Chaz Brenchley and Lynn Flewelling"] "Are You Being Served", Ed. Jennifer Lokash, Columbia University Press. Accessed at [http://www.sff.net/people/lynn.flewelling/s.jes.battis.html "www.sff.net/people/lynn.flewelling/s.jes.battis.html"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612184812/http://sff.net/people/Lynn.Flewelling/s.jes.battis.html |date=2010-06-12 }}

Bibliography

= Novels =

== The Nightrunner Series ==

{{cite book

| year = 1996

| title = Luck in the Shadows

| publisher = Bantam Spectra

| isbn = 0-553-57542-2

}}

{{cite book

| year = 1997

| title = Stalking Darkness

| publisher = Bantam Spectra

| isbn = 0-553-57543-0

}}

{{cite book

| year = 1999

| title = Traitor's Moon

| publisher = Bantam Spectra

| isbn = 0-553-57725-5

}}

{{cite book

| year = 2008

| title = Shadows Return

| publisher = Bantam Spectra

| isbn = 978-0-553-59008-1

}}

{{cite book

| year = 2010

| title = The White Road

| publisher = Bantam Spectra

| isbn = 978-0-553-59009-8

}}

{{cite book

| year = 2012

| title = Casket of Souls

| publisher = Bantam Spectra

| isbn = 978-0-345-52230-6

}}

{{cite book

| year = 2014

| title = Shards of Time

| publisher = Del Rey

| isbn = 978-0-345-52231-3

}}

== Tamír Triad ==

{{cite book

| year = 2001

| title = The Bone Doll's Twin

| publisher = Bantam Spectra

| isbn = 0-00-711307-2

}}

{{cite book

| year = 2003

| title = Hidden Warrior

| publisher = Bantam Spectra

| isbn = 0-00-711310-2

}}

{{cite book

| year = 2006

| title = Oracle's Queen

| publisher = Bantam Spectra

| isbn = 0-00-711312-9

}}

= Shorts =

"Letter To Alexi", Prisoners of the Night #9, 1995
"Raven's Cut", Assassin Fantastic anthology, Martin Greenberg and Alex Potter, ed. DAW Books, 2001
"The Complete Nobody's Guide to Query Letters", Speculations, 1999; reprinted on SFWA website and in The Writer's Guide to Queries, Pitches and Proposals by Moira Allen, Allsworth Press, 2001
"Perfection", Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Steven Savile and Alethea Kontis, ed., Tor Books, 2006
{{cite book

| year = 2010

| title = Glimpses: A Collection of Nightrunner Short Stories

| publisher = Three Crow Press

| isbn = 978-1-453-62491-3

}}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20150905185842/http://www.lynnflewelling.com/ Lynn Flewelling's Official Web Site]
[http://otterdance.livejournal.com/profile Lynn Flewelling Blog on LiveJournal]
[https://archive.today/20130209235153/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Flewelling Lynn Flewelling's Yahoo! group]
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[http://cosmiccompostheap.wordpress.com/ Lynn Flewelling Blog on WordPress]

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