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 Adelaiden and 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.
"[Starman] should satisfy a fantasy readership hungry for strong female characters." --Publishers Weekly on Starman"A stunning tour de force with a full complement of action, mysticism, mystery and magic...Sara Douglass is a powerful voice in high fantasy that readers can equate to the likes of Robert Jordan, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Anne McCaffrey." --Romantic Times (4 1/2 stars) on Enchanter"Douglass handles matters impressively and her characters are fully drawn." --Kirkus Reviews on The Wayfarer Redemption
"[Starman] should satisfy a fantasy readership hungry for strong female characters." --Publishers Weekly on Starman"A stunning tour de force with a full complement of action, mysticism, mystery and magic...Sara Douglass is a powerful voice in high fantasy that readers can equate to the likes of Robert Jordan, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Anne McCaffrey." --Romantic Times (4 1/2 stars) on Enchanter"Douglass handles matters impressively and her characters are fully drawn." --Kirkus Reviews on The Wayfarer Redemption
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