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Charles de Lint, an extraordinarily prolific writer of fantasy works, was born in the Netherlands in 1951. Due to his father's work as a surveyor, the family lived in many different places, including Canada, Turkey, and Lebanon. De Lint was influenced by many writers in the areas of mythology, folklore, and science fiction. De Lint originally wanted to play Celtic music. He only began to write seriously to provide an artist friend with stories to illustrate. The combination of the success of his work, The Fane of the Grey Rose (which he later developed into the novel The Harp of the Grey Rose), the loss of his job in a record store, and the support of his wife, Mary Ann, helped encourage de Lint to pursue writing fulltime. After selling three novels in one year, his career soared and he has become a most successful fantasy writer. De Lint's works include novels, novellas, short stories, chapbooks, and verse. He also publishes under the pseudonyms Wendelessen, Henri Cuiscard, and Jan Penalurick. He has received many awards, including the 2000 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection for Moonlight and Vines, the Ontario Library Association's White Pine Award, as well as the Great Lakes Great Books Award for his young adult novel The Blue Girl. His novel Widdershins won first place, Amazon.com Editors' Picks: Top 10 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2006. In 1988 he won Canadian SF/Fantasy Award, the Casper, now known as the Aurora for his novel Jack, the Giant Killer. Also, de Lint has been a judge for the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award and the Bram Stoker Award. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Dreams Underfoot: A Newford Collection… (more)
Moonheart 1,901 copies, 32 reviews
The Onion Girl 1,850 copies, 43 reviews
The Blue Girl 1,598 copies, 46 reviews
Memory and Dream 1,570 copies, 22 reviews
Someplace to be Flying 1,552 copies, 27 reviews
The Little Country 1,508 copies, 14 reviews
Forests of the Heart 1,268 copies, 15 reviews
Widdershins 1,180 copies, 18 reviews
The Ivory and the Horn 1,121 copies, 10 reviews
Moonlight & Vines 1,101 copies, 13 reviews
Greenmantle (Author) 1,093 copies, 12 reviews
Spirits in the Wires 1,090 copies, 13 reviews
Yarrow 1,054 copies, 14 reviews
Trader 1,043 copies, 16 reviews
Spiritwalk 1,010 copies, 6 reviews
Into the Green 928 copies, 10 reviews
Tapping the Dream Tree 842 copies, 10 reviews
The Riddle of the Wren 777 copies, 11 reviews
Wolf Moon 773 copies, 16 reviews
Waifs and Strays 756 copies, 7 reviews
The Wild Wood 748 copies, 9 reviews
The Dreaming Place 723 copies, 7 reviews
Svaha 678 copies, 8 reviews
Mulengro 664 copies, 18 reviews
The Harp of the Grey Rose 652 copies, 14 reviews
Little (Grrl) Lost 615 copies, 31 reviews
The Mystery of Grace 555 copies, 35 reviews
Jack, the Giant Killer 473 copies, 4 reviews
Angel of Darkness 403 copies, 6 reviews
Dingo 398 copies, 16 reviews
The Cats of Tanglewood Forest 390 copies, 24 reviews
The Very Best of Charles de Lint 380 copies, 10 reviews
From a Whisper to a Scream 374 copies, 8 reviews
Medicine Road 364 copies, 5 reviews
Muse and Reverie 351 copies, 19 reviews
Promises to Keep 335 copies, 15 reviews
A Circle of Cats 272 copies, 9 reviews
The Painted Boy 264 copies, 8 reviews
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That Was Radio Clash 15 copies, 1 review
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We Never Talk About My Brother (Introduction) 319 copies, 11 reviews
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