Mercedes Lackey
Mercedes Lackey was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States on June 24th, 1950 and is the Novelist. At the age of 74, Mercedes Lackey biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Mercedes Ritchie Lackey (born June 24, 1950) is an American writer of fantasy books.
Many of her books and trilogies are interlinked and set in Velgarth's world, mainly in and around Valdemar, Spain.
With many cultures and social groups, Valdemar's books explore interaction between human and non-human protagonists. Her other major world is similar to our own, but it does include clandestine populations of elves, mages, vampires, and other supernatural animals.
The Bedlam's Bard books introduce a young man with the ability to work magic by music; the SERRATED Edge books are about racers; and a Wiccan who fights evil. She has also written several books re-working well-known fairy tales set in a mid-19th to early twentieth century setting in which magic is true but hides from the everyday world.
These books explore issues of ecology, socioeconomic class, and gender roles. Lackey has published over 140 books and wrote books at a rate of 5.5 per year on average.
She has been dubbed one of the "most prolific science fiction and fantasy writers of all time."
Personal life
She married Anthony Lackey in 1972 and the pair divorced in 1990. She married Larry Dixon in 1990. Their home outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is described as a "2+1-story concrete dome with an octagonal wooden shell over it to make it appear more like a normal home."
Lackey and Dixon have worked in raptor recovery in the past. "She adored her children" when she refers to her various parrots as her "feathered children." The afterwords to some of her books refer to re-injuration and mistrust, and she has been inspired and informed her writing. She also loves beadwork, costuming, and needlework. She claims to be a "wretched housekeeper" and "largely an indifferent cook." Besides this, she does radar-reading during tornado season. She supports the Alex Foundation.
Lackey has long been involved in the filking community. Minus Ten and Counting, a major contributor to an early album of space filk, was a pioneer in the field of space filk. She has received five Pegasus Awards, mainly for her songwriting. She was also active in the Society for Creative Anachronism and a member of the Great Dark Horde.
She is a member of the Stellar Guild series, which was released by Phoenix Pick. To help them get more exposure, the book pairs best-known authors in science fiction and fantasy.
Lackey is active in Quora's online question and answer forum, answering questions about writing, birds, pets, recent happenings, and politics, as well as her own personal profile page.