Robin Hobb is the second pseudonym of novel writer Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden who produces primarily fantasy fiction, although she has released some science fiction.
From 1983 to 1992, she created exclusively under the pen name Megan Lindholm. Fiction under that pen name tends to be contemporary fantasy. In 1995, she began use of the pen name Robin Hobb for books of epic traditional European Medieval Fantasy. She currently publishes under both names, and she currently lives in Tacoma, Washington. As of 2003 she had sold over 1 million copies of her first nine Robin Hobb stories. She has just finished composing a two volume novel named The Rain Wild Chronicles. The volumes are called The Dragon Keeper and Dragon Haven. Her latest release, The Inheritance, is a collection of short fiction by both Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm. She is currently working on her next book, which is as yet untitled. It will continue the novels of some of the characters from The Rain Wild Chronicles.
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Ogden started life in California in 1952, but was brought up in Alaska. After graduating from university, she studied at Denver High school for a year and then returned to Alaska. After marrying at eighteen, she moved to Kodiak, an island off the coast of Alaska. It was at this time that she sold her first short story, and began a career composing for children's magazines. Bones for Dulath in Amazons! was the first piece of fantasy that she released as Megan Lindholm.
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