Paula Volsky is an American fantasy author.
Biography
Paula Volsky was born in Fanwood, New Jersey. She majored in English literature at liberal arts college,
Vassar College, in New York State, where she became friendly with
Esther Friesner and Jane Bishop. Together, they wrote at least one film script for student production,
Lavinia: a Girl of the Street, which demonstrated Volsky's trademark tongue-in-cheek style. At the University of Birmingham, England, she received an M.A. in Shakespearian studies. Before writing fantasy, she sold real estate and also worked for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
[Volsky, Paula The White Tribunal New York, Bantam Books, 1997]
After releasing novels regularly for nearly twenty years, Volsky published no new work for nearly a decade, even though Locus had reported her sale of a "new fantasy trilogy" to Bantam Books in mid-2000.["People and Publishing", Locus, August 2000, p.12] After a long delay, the publisher announced that the final volume had been completed, and that it would issue the books beginning in late 2011.
Terri Windling described Volsky as "a reliably entertaining storyteller."["Summation 1994: Fantasy," The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection, p.xix] All her novels written under her own name take place within the same fictional world, often with fantasy plot-lines inspired by historical events.
Bibliography
Novels
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The Curse of the Witch-Queen. Ballantine, 1982.
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Sorcerer series
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The Sorcerer's Lady. Ace, 1986.
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The Sorcerer's Heir. Ace, 1988.
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The Sorcerer's Curse. Ace, 1989.
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The Luck of Relian Kru. Ace, 1987.
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Illusion. London: Gollancz, 1991.
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The Wolf of Winter. Bantam Spectra, 1993.
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The Gates of Twilight. Bantam Spectra, 1996.
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The White Tribunal. Bantam Spectra, 1997.
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The Grand Ellipse. Bantam Spectra, 2000.
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The Veiled Isles Trilogy
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The Traitor's Daughter. Bantam Spectra, 2011. (as Paula Brandon)
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The Ruined City. Bantam Spectra, 2012. (as Paula Brandon)
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The Wanderers. Bantam Spectra, 2012. (as Paula Brandon)
Short stories
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'The Traditions of Karzh' in Songs of the Dying Earth, ed. George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, Subterranean Press, 2009.
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'Giant Rat of Sumatra' in Resurrected Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin's.
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