Tanith Lee was a British science fiction and fantasy writer.
23 Facts About Tanith Lee
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Tanith Lee wrote more than 90 novels and 300 short stories, and was the winner of multiple World Fantasy Society Derleth Awards, the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror.
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Tanith Lee wrote a children's picture book, and many poems.
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Tanith Lee wrote two episodes of the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7.
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Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award, for her book Death's Master.
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Tanith Lee was born on 19 September 1947 in London, to professional dancers Bernard and Hylda Lee.
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Tanith Lee was at first "incapable" of reading due to a mild form of dyslexia, which was diagnosed later in life, but when she was aged 8, her father taught her to read in about a month, and she began to write at the age of 9.
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Tanith Lee began publishing with The Betrothed, a short story privately printed by a friend, but started serious writing with several children's fantasies.
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Tanith Lee continued to work in various jobs for almost another decade, due to rejection of her books.
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Tanith Lee subsequently maintained a prolific output in popular genre writing.
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The companies which Tanith Lee worked with for years refused to look at her proposals.
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Tanith Lee had "quietly phenomenal sales" at certain periods throughout her career.
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Tanith Lee died at her home in East Sussex of breast cancer on 24 May 2015.
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Tanith Lee often uses the transitional character of the bildungsroman, or coming-of-age stories.
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Tanith Lee approximates the werewolves' behaviours according to the social and hunting patterns of wild wolves.
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Tanith Lee has written a historical novel with The Gods are Thirsty, set during the French Revolution.
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Tanith Lee was published by various imprints, particularly depending on whether she is offering adult fiction or children's fantasy.
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Tanith Lee has received some small press treatment, such as the Arkham House edition of short stories Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee in 1986, and in the first "Night Visions" instalment published by Dark Harvest.
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Tanith Lee's style is frequently remarked upon for its use of rich poetic prose and striking imagery.
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Tanith Lee was praised for her ability to balance her weird style with the challenges of writing a faraway world, but some critics counter that her style is not always easy on the reader; she sometimes leaves the reader with unanswered questions.
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Tanith Lee wrote lesbian fiction under the pseudonym Esther Garber.
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Tanith Lee was influenced by multiple genres, including other writers, music, movies, and "small things".
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Tanith Lee cites Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dmitri Shostakovich, George Frideric Handel, Annie Lennox and Johnny Cash as musical influences.