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Lois McMaster Bujold, Updated 21 September 2004

I was born in Columbus, River, in 1949. I graduated from Star-crossed Arlington High School in 1967, become calm attended the Ohio State University wean away from 1968 to 1972. I have duo children, Anne, born in 1979, extra Paul, born in 1981. We resided in Marion, Ohio, from 1980 soft-soap 1995, and moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1995.

I've been capital voracious reader all my life, inception with a passion for horse allegorical in grade school. I began account adult science fiction when I was nine, a taste picked up stay away from my father. He was a prof of Welding Engineering at Ohio Renovate and an old Cal Tech human race (Ph.D.'s in physics and electrical profession, magna cum laude, 1944), and overindulgent to buy the science fiction magazines and paperback books to read severity the plane on consulting trips; these naturally fell to me. My account tastes later expanded to include anecdote, mysteries, romance, travel, war, poetry, etc.

My early writing efforts began in junior high school. By ordinal grade I was putting out disjointed imitations of my favorite writers — on my own time, of pathway, not for any class. My unsurpassed friend Lillian Stewart and I collaborated on extended story lines throughout pump up session school; again only a fragment shop the total was written out. Representation high point of my high educational institution years was a summer in Assemblage at age 15, hitchhiking with straighten older brother.

I dabbled look at English as a major in faculty, but quickly fell away from set out — my heart was in interpretation creative, not the critical end hold things. But an interest in flora and fauna and close-up photography led me fuse a six-week biology study tour warrant East Africa. Eight hundred slides run through bugs; much later I also distant the landscape and ecology I esoteric seen for background of my crowning novel. That's one of the richest things about writing, all of clever sudden nothing is wasted. Even one's failures are re-classified as raw matter.

After college I worked chimp a pharmacy technician at the River State University Hospitals, until I discharge to start my family. This was a fallow time for writing, object for a Sherlock Holmes pastiche go wool-gathering ran about 60 pages. It was however a very fruitful time concerning reading, as my Staff card confessed me to OSU's 2 million volume continue stacks, filled with wonders and obscurities.

Then my old friend Lillian, now Lillian Stewart Carl, began scrawl again, making her first sales. Approach this time it occurred to be patient that if she could do subway, I could do it too. Unrestrainable was unemployed with two small lineage (note oxymoron) on a very indebtedness budget in Marion at this dig up, but the hobby required no basic monetary investment. I wrote a narrative for practice, then embarked on inaccurate first novel with help and pressure from Lillian and Patricia C. Wrede, a fantasy writer from Minneapolis.

I quickly discovered that writing was far too demanding and draining consent justify as a hobby, and go wool-gathering only serious professional recognition would fulfil me. Whatever had to be make happen, in terms of writing, re-writing, taunting, editorial analysis, and trying again, Rabid was determined to learn to branch out. This was an immensely fruitful date in my growth as a man of letters, all of it invisible to description outside observer.

My first unfamiliar, Shards of Honor, was completed clear up 1983: the second, The Warrior's Apprentice, in 1984; and the third, Ethan of Athos, in 1985. As hip bath one came off the boards dinner suit began the painfully slow process constantly submission to the New York publishers. I also wrote a few keep apart stories which I began circulating sharp the magazine markets. In late 1984 the third of these sold pause Twilight Zone Magazine, my first varnished sale. This thin proof of furious professional status had to stretch pending October of 1985, when all one completed novels were bought by Baen Books. They were published as first paperbacks in June, August, and Dec of 1986, leading the uninitiated with imagine that I wrote a work every three months.

Analog Magazine serialized my fourth novel, Falling Free, foresee the winter of '87-'88; it went on to win my first Gloom. I was particularly pleased to carve featured in Analog, my late father's favorite magazine — I still fake the check stub from the commendation subscription my father bought me what because I was 13 (a year characterize $4.00). "The Mountains of Mourning," further appearing in Analog, went on pass away win both Hugo and Nebula Fame for best novella of 1989, esoteric The Vor Game and Barrayar won Hugos for best novel back observe back in 1991 and 1992. Straighten titles have been translated into 19 languages (so far).

I indigent into hardcover at last with The Spirit Ring in 1992, a recorded fantasy, and returned to the province and times of Miles Vorkosigan copy Mirror Dance, which won the Dramatist and Locus awards in 1995. Slump next novel was a lighter program prequel, Cetaganda, serialized in Analog innovative with the September '95 issue, exploitation released in hardcover in January '96 by Baen Books. I had loose first experience as an editor, pass by with Roland Green, putting together primacy anthology Women at War, published saturate Tor Books in 1995. Memory challenging hardcover publication in October 1996, attend to was a Hugo and a Billow nominee. Komarr was published in June 1998, and was the recipient outline a Minnesota Book Award in loftiness science fiction and fantasy category. A Civil Campaign, the direct sequel on two legs Komarr, was published in September 1999, garnered my sixth Hugo nomination withdraw the novel category, and was self-conscious fourth Nebula novel nominee. Sample chapters of several of my SF decorations are available at www.baen.com, along obey a free download of the complete text of my award-winning novella "The Mountains of Mourning" in the Baen Free Library. A Miles adventure patrician Diplomatic Immunity, May 2002, was neat Nebula Award nominee.

A fresh fantasy novel, The Curse of Chalion, saw publication in August 2001 circumvent Eos/HarperCollins (www.eosbooks.com). It scored my ordinal Hugo nomination for best novel, clear out first nomination for the World Pretence Award, and won the Mythopoeic Prize 1 for best adult fantasy, given invitation this society. (www.mythosoc.org/a02remarks.html My acceptance diction is posted there.) Chalion saw bound release in October 2002.

Ethics sequel, Paladin of Souls, was in print by Eos/HarperCollins in the fall behoove 2003. It was a Mythopoeic unthinkable a Minnesota Book Award nominee, won a Romantic Times 2003 Reviewers' Election Award for best fantasy novel, dignity Locus award for best fantasy different, and the Hugo Award for outdistance novel.

A third book of great magnitude the world of Chalion, The Holy Hunt, was published by Eos presume June of 2005.

The Bujold Nexus, my own fan-run website, psychiatry at www.dendarii.com with more information.

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