Ellen Kushner is a novelist, performer, and public radio
personality. Her work includes the weekly notational public radio
series PRI’s Sound & Spirit with Ellen Kushner, the recording The
Golden Dreydl: a Klezmer ‘Nutcracker’ for Chanukah (Ryykodisc CD)
and a live performance piece, Esther: the feast of Masks. Her
novels Swordpoint and (with Delia Sherman) The Fall of
Kings share a setting and quite a few characters with The
Privilege of The Swords. She is a member of Terri Windling’s
Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts and co-founder of the Interstitial
Arts Foundation. She lives in New York City and travels a lot,
giving shows and readings, lecturing and teaching. You can keep up
with her whereabouts and learn more about Riverside and its
denizens at www.EllenKushner.com
Her novel Thomas the Rhymer won the World Fantasy Award.
"It's beautifully written, breezy, quick, hysterically funny,
poignant and bloody and world-weary and heartrendingly naive by
turns. This is a fantastic book, a coming-of-age story, and I love
it with a quite deep and unreasonable love".—Elizabeth Bear, author
of Worldwired
"Winning high fantasy ... a welcome return to the romantic
Riverside world Kushner introduced in Swordspoint."—Publishers
Weekly
"One of the most gorgeous books I've ever read: it's witty and
wonderful, with characters that will provoke, charm and
delight."—Holly Black, author of Tithe and Valiant
"A magical mixture of Dumas and Georgette Heyer. The dialogue
dazzles and so does the swordplay."—Kelly Link, author of Magic For
Beginners
"A swashbuckler for women—splendid!"—Tamora Pierce
“Unholy fun, and wholly fun...an elegant riposte, dazzlingly
executed.” – Gregory Maguire, NYT bestselling author of Wicked
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