Robin McKinley

Robin McKinley.

Robin McKinley is an author of fantasy and adventure stories.

Ms McKinley grew up as a "military brat" moving around regularly. She now lives in England with her husband, also a writer, Peter Dickinson. She is apparently fond of whippets (a type of dog) and roses.

Other authors she mentions on her website as influences or inspirations are Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Dickens, Hardy, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, H. Rider Haggard and J.R.R. Tolkien.

Works

Her stories include

Novels

Note: The dates below should be checked. Some are publication dates rather than copyright as intended.

• Spindle's End (2000)
• The Blue Sword Newbery Honor Book, 1983
• The Hero and the Crown (1985) Newbery Award, 1985
• Dragonhaven (2007)
• Sunshine (2003)
• Rose Daughter (1998?)
• Beauty (1993?)
• Deerskin (1994)
• The Outlaws of Sherwood (1988)

Short story collections

• A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories
• The Door in the Hedge

Anthologies

• Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits short stories with Peter Dickinson

and more

External links

• Robin McKinley: Dragonhaven - the author's site
• Ms McKinley's LiveJournal blog
• A couple of sites call themselves the official Robin McKinley site, but are clearly not. They include
  • mindstalk.net/mckinley
  • www.sff.net/people/robin-mckinley/ (might have been at one time)