Debra Doyle

Debra Doyle (November 30, 1952 – October 31, 2020) was an American author in multiple related fiction genres, including science fiction, fantasy, and mystery, for young adults and adults. Her works were co-written with her husband, James D. Macdonald.

Life and career Doyle earned a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania with a dissertation on Old English poetry.

Her first work written with Macdonald was "Bad Blood" in 1988. Their novel Knight's Wyrd was awarded the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature in 1992 and appeared on the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age list in 1993. They published two series, Mageworlds (7 novels) and The Wizard Apprentice (8 novels), and two alternate history novels, Land of Mist and Snow and Lincoln's Sword. site.

Series

Circle of Magic (with James D Macdonald)

School of Wizardry (1990) Tournament and Tower (1990); reissued as Secret of the Tower (2000) City by the Sea (1990); reissued as The Wizard's Statue (2000) The Prince's Players (1990); reissued as Danger In The Palace (2000) The Prisoners of Bell Castle (1990); reissued as The Wizard's Castle (1999) The High King's Daughter (1990)

Tom Swift (Fourth Series) (with James D Macdonald)

Monster Machine (1991) Aquatech Warriors (1991)

MageWorlds (with James D Macdonald)

The Price of the Stars (1992) Starpilot's Grave (1993) By Honor Betray'd (1994) The Gathering Flame (1995) The Long Hunt (1996) The Stars Asunder (1999) A Working of Stars (2002) A Death in the Working (2004); a Mageworlds short story On Suivi Point (2005); a Mageworlds novelette

Bad Blood (with James D Macdonald)

Bad Blood (1993) Hunter's Moon (1994) Judgement Night (1995) Bad Blood: A Short Story (2011)

Peter Crossman (with James D Macdonald)

The Confessions of Peter Crossman (2010) The Devil in the Details (2014)

Orville Nesbit (with James D Macdonald)

Ecdysis (2011)

Novels

Knight's Wyrd (1992) (with James D Macdonald) Groogleman (1996) (with James D Macdonald) Prince Valiant (1998) (with Hal Foster and James D Macdonald) Land of Mist and Snow (2006) (with James D Macdonald) Lincoln's Sword (2010) (with James D Macdonald)

Short stories (selection) "Now And in the Hour of Death" (co-written with James D. Macdonald and collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology Alternate Kennedys) "Witch Garden" co-written with James D. Macdonald (1994) "Please to See the King" co-written with James D. Macdonald (1995) "Ecdysis" co-written with James D. Macdonald (1996) "Ghosts and Legends" (with James D. Macdonald) (2012)