Peter S. Beagle
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Peter S. Beagle was born in Manhattan in April of 1939. During his senior year of high school, Beagle entered a poem and a short story in the 1955 Scholastic Writing Awards Contest, not knowing that the Grand Prize was a college education. He won that prize and went on to spend four years at the näytä lisää University of Pittsburgh after graduating from high school in 1955. In his sophomore year at the University of Pittsburgh, Beagle entered another contest, winning first place again in Seventeen Magazine's Short Story Contest. At the age of 19, he published "A Fine and Private Place." Beagle graduated college with a degree in Creative Writing and a Spanish minor and then spent a year overseas. When he returned, his new-found agent had enrolled him in a writing workshop at Stanford. After his first few published stories, Beagle supported himself and his family as a freelancer for many years. In the 70's he began to write screenplays, as well as take up the hobby of singing folk songs at a local club. Beagle has published music as well as books, both his passions, and both lucrative. Beagle gives lectures and readings at universities, and also hosts writing workshops at schools such as the University of Washington and Clarion West. His works have been translated into 15 languages. Beagle has also written a script for Star Trek: The Next Generation and the screenplay for the animated feature version of The Lord of the Rings. In 1987, Beagle's "The Last Unicorn" was proclaimed the Number 5 All Time Fantasy Novel. That same year, "The Innkeeper's Song" won the Mythopoetic Fantasy Award. In 1997, "The Unicorn Sonata" won the Locus Poll Award for Best Novella, and in 1998, "Giant Bones" won the same award as well as being nominated for the 1998 World Fantasy Award. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset
The Secret History of Fantasy (2010) — Toimittaja; Avustaja; Johdanto, eräät painokset — 199 kappaletta
Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn: Volume 2 (1999) — Toimittaja; Avustaja; Esipuhe — 122 kappaletta
The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volume 2: Oakland Dragon Blues and Other Stories (2023) 40 kappaletta
My Son Heydari and the Karkadann 17 kappaletta
The Fantasy & Science Fiction Book of Unicorns, Volume 2 — Avustaja — 13 kappaletta
The Last Unicorn #2 9 kappaletta
The Way It Works Out and All 8 kappaletta
The Last Unicorn #4 7 kappaletta
The Last Unicorn #6 7 kappaletta
The Last Unicorn #3 6 kappaletta
The Last Unicorn #5 6 kappaletta
Barrens Dance 5 kappaletta
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Program Book 4 kappaletta
Oakland Dragon Blues 2 kappaletta
The Bridge Partner 2 kappaletta
Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros 2 kappaletta
The Woman Who Married the Man In the Moon 2 kappaletta
Kaskia 2 kappaletta
Four Fables 2 kappaletta
Olfort Dapper’s Day 2 kappaletta
The Naga {short story} 2 kappaletta
The Best Worst Monster [short story] 1 kappale
Music When Soft Voices Die 1 kappale
Vanishing [Novelette] 1 kappale
The Rock in the Park [short story] 1 kappale
Trinity County Ca 1 kappale
The Ape-man Of Mars 1 kappale
Julie's Unicorn [short story] 1 kappale
Untitled Work on Fiction 1 kappale
Signed Contract for "Come Lady Death" 1 kappale
Associated Works
Taru sormusten herrasta. 1 : Sormuksen ritarit (1954) — Johdanto, eräät painokset — 54,221 kappaletta
The Dragon Book: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy (2009) — Avustaja — 392 kappaletta
Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense (2011) — Avustaja — 206 kappaletta
Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire (2004) — Avustaja — 202 kappaletta
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (2012) — Avustaja, eräät painokset — 137 kappaletta
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology (2009) — Avustaja — 130 kappaletta
The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature: The World's Greatest Kids' Lit as Comics and Visuals (2014) — Avustaja — 90 kappaletta
For the Sake of the Game: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon (2018) — Avustaja — 86 kappaletta
New York Fantastic: Fantasy Stories from the City that Never Sleeps (2017) — Avustaja — 33 kappaletta
Magician's Circle: More Spellbinding Stories of Wizards & Wizardry (2003) — Avustaja — 21 kappaletta
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July/August 2011, Vol. 121, Nos. 1 & 2 (2011) — Avustaja — 14 kappaletta
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 2004, Vol. 106, No. 5 (2004) — Tekijä — 14 kappaletta
Nuove avventure nell'ignoto — Avustaja — 2 kappaletta
Treasure Island Trek; Children's Author & Illustrator Festival Saturday Oct, 18, 1969 — Avustaja, eräät painokset — 1 kappale
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Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Beagle, Peter Soyer
- Syntymäaika
- 1939-04-20
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Manhattan, New York, New York, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Oakland, California, USA
New York, New York, USA - Koulutus
- University of Pittsburgh
- Ammatit
- fantasy writer
non-fiction writer
screenwriter - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1999)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (2018)
Jäseniä
Keskustelut
OT Suntup the last Unicorn, Folio Society Devotees (syyskuu 2023)
Peter S. Beagle's short story anthologies, Fairy Tale Readers (maaliskuu 2013)
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A Novel Cure (1)
2023 Reads (1)
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