Peter S. Beagle

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Peter Soyer Beagle (born April 20, 1939) is an American novelist and screenwriter, particularly fantasy fiction.

The Last Unicorn (1968), a fantasy book he wrote in his twenties that Locus subscribers voted the number five "All-Time Best Fantasy Novel" in 1987, was his best-known work.

He has received many literary awards, including a Life Achievement Award in 2011.

In 2018, SFWA named him Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master.

Early life

Beagle, the son of Rebecca Soyer and Simon Beagle, was born in Manhattan on April 20, 1939. Moses, Raphael, and Isaac Soyer were three of his uncles who were known painters.

The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame's children's literature masterpiece, attracted him to the genre of fantasy, according to Beagle.

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Career

Beagle was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1955. He received early recognition from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, as well as a scholarship to University of Pittsburgh for a poem he submitted as a high school senior. He earned a degree in creative writing from the university. Beagle won the Graduate Stegner Fellowship in creative writing at Stanford University, where he met Ken Kesey, Gurney Norman, and Larry McMurtry during a year abroad.

Beagle wrote his first book, A Fine and Private Place, when he was 19 years old, and then followed it with a memoir, I See by My Outfittion, in 1965. He is best known today as the author of The Last Unicorn and A Fine and Private Place, as well as later fantasies based on The Folk of the Air.

Beagle converted to screenwriting in the 1970s. He co-wrote the screenplay for The Lord of the Rings, a Ralph Bakshi-animated version of The Lord of the Rings, after writing an introduction for an American print version of The Lord of the Rings. He wrote the teleplay for "Sarek," episode 71 of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, two decades later.

Beagle's work as a screenwriter sparked his early career as a novelist, magazine nonfiction author, and short-story writer. However, in the mid-1990s, he returned to prose fiction of all lengths and has released new pieces at a steady rate. The Midnight Angel, a composer-led opera, converted David Carlson's "Come, Lady Death" into a libretto for an opera, which premiered at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis in 1993.

Beagle published a coda to The Last Unicorn, a novelette called Two Hearts, in 2005, and began working on a full-novel sequel. Two Hearts received the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2006 and the parallel Nebula Award in 2007. It was also selected as a short fiction finalist for the World Fantasy Award. In 2006, Beagle was given a special Inkpot Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science Fiction and Fantasy, as well as the inaugural WSFA Small Press Award for "El Regalo," which was published in The Line Between (Tachyon Publications).

In April 2010, IDW Publishing published a six-issue comic book version of The Last Unicorn. The collected hardcover book first appeared in January 2011, debuting at No. 1 on the New York Times Hardcover Graphic Novel bestseller list.

We Never Talk About My Brother, Beagle's 2009 collection of short fiction, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award.

In 2013, he collaborated with Phildel (a UK musician) on a new track titled "Dark Water Down," mixing poetry and music. They landed together at a Cafe Du Nord performance in San Francisco.

In 1982, Peter S. Beagle's book The Last Unicorn was turned into an animated film of the same name, based on a screenplay written by Beagle himself. Beagle had a deal with ITC Entertainment in 1979, limiting Beagle to 5% of the net income in the animated film and 5% of the gross sales from any film-related merchandising. Granada Media International, a British company (a ITV plc subsidiary) has been in charge of this film since 1999. Beagle was embroiled in a financial dispute with Granada over the non-payment of contractually owing to income and merchandising shares from 2003 to 2011. Beagle revealed on July 29, 2011, he and ITV had signed an agreement that was mutually beneficial to all parties, as well as fans of The Last Unicorn. The first results of the sale were revealed on October 14, 2011, at his New York Comic Con appearance.

Connor Cochran, Beagle's former boss, was sued in 2015 for $52 million. Kathleen Hunt portrayed Beagle. Judge Michael M. Markman found Cochran accountable for financial elder abuse, fraud, and breach of fiduciary duty in July 2019, as well as an additional $75,000 for defamation and an undetermined amount in attorney's fees.

Six hours before the trial was scheduled to begin, Cochran declared bankruptcy. Beagle was unable to recover the money due to Cochran's absence, and Beagle's employment was also in question. Beagle was able to regain ownership of his intellectual property in February 2021, following a six-year fight in bankruptcy and California state courts led by Kathleen Hunt, and assisted by James Null, who supervised Loeb & Loeb's Capital Markets and Corporate practice.

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