![]() ![]() In 2000, she was awarded the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement. After suffering declining health for years, she died in Berkeley in 1999. She separated from her second husband in 1979 but remained married and continued a business relationship, until 1990 when he was arrested on child molestation charges and they divorced. In 1967 she moved to Staten Island, New York. In 1966, she co-founded the Society for Creative Anachronism. She then moved to Berkeley, California, to pursue graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. degree from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. In 1964 she divorced her first husband and married numismatist Walter H. Early in her career, she used pseudonyms for stories she wrote outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels such as I Am a Lesbian (1962). She also married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. She began writing them herself in 1949 and sold her first story to Vortex in 1952. As a child, she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy stories. The author of the marvelous Darkover novels and of the best-selling Arthurian novel THE MISTS OF AVALON, has assembled this corona of heroic fantasy wherein women of courage and wizardry challenge the evils and dreads of an ensorcelled world. Marion Zimmer was born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the Great Depression. ![]()
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