“I think ever since I started to
read, there have been favorite novels for different stages of my life. And one
is never bumped out of place to yield to another. Instead, I just add to my
favorite shelves.” – Robin Hobb
Born in California on this date in 1952 Hobb is actually Margaret Astrid Lindholm, who decided she’d rather be known by the names Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm while writing. Since 1995 she’s written five different series set in the "Realm of the Elderlings", for which she earned the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2021.
Hobb’s initial writing successes
were in children’s stories, writing as Megan Lindholm, the name she continued
using when she moved into short stories set in the Fantasy
world. But when she decided to go to longer, epic-style Fantasy, she
took on the Robin Hobb title.
Lindholm has lived in Alaska since
age 10 with just a one-year move to Denver when she started her college
studies. She has been writing since her teen years and is noted for
a style that is built from the main character outward.
“As the character talks and moves,
the world around him is slowly revealed, just like dollying a camera back for a
wider look at things,” she explained. “So all my stories start with
a character, and that character introduces setting, culture, conflict,
government, economy... all of it, through his or her eyes.”
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