Sara Douglass was born in Penola, a small farming settlement in the
south of Australia, in 1957. She spent her early years chasing (and
being chased by) sheep and collecting snakes before her parents
transported her to the city of Adelaideand the more genteel
surroundings of Methodist Ladies College. Having graduated, Sara
then became a nurse on her parents' urging (it was both feminine
and genteel) and spent seventeen years planning and then effecting
her escape.
That escape came in the form of a Ph.D. in early modern English
history. Sara and nursing finally parted company after a lengthy
time of bare tolerance, and she took up a position as senior
lecturer in medieval European history at the Bendigo campus of the
Victorian University of La Trobe. Finding the departmental politics
of academic life as intolerable as the emotional rigours of
nursing, Sara needed to find another escape.
This took the form of one of Sara's childhood loves - books and
writing. Spending some years practising writing novels,
HarperCollins Australia picked up one of Sara's novels, "BattleAxe"
(published in North America as "The Wayfarer Redemption"), the
first in the Tencendor series, and chose it as the lead book in
their new fantasy line with immediate success. Since 1995 Sara has
become Australia's leading fantasy author and one of its top
novelists. Her books are now sold around the world.
"Sara Douglass has the breadth of vision necessary to create
sweeping epics and the storyteller's gift that makes readers love
her." "-Locus " "Ms. Douglass recreates the Aegean world and a
Pre-Celtic England in a sweeping epic that grabs your attention at
the first page."--"Romantic Times Book Club" (4 stars)
"A soap opera for the ancient world..."--"Kirkus Reviews"
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