About Lisa Tuttle
Born 1952. Lisa Tuttle is an American and British novelist, writer, science fiction writer and journalist.
Nebula Awards refusal
In 1982, Tuttle became the first person to refuse a Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Award. with whom she co-wrote Windhaven. Tuttle lived with Steven Utley for several years before moving in January 1981 from the United States to London, England, where she married British writer Christopher Priest. After the marriage ended in 1987, she relocated to Torinturk in rural Scotland in 1990, where she currently lives with her second husband, editor Colin Murray, and their daughter, Emily. The Mysteries (2005) The Silver Bough (2006) The Curious Affair of the Somnambulist and the Psychic Thief (2016) The Curious Affair of the Witch at Wayside Cross (2017) The Curious Affair of the Missing Mummies (2023)
Dolphin Diaries (Series of children's books written by Tuttle but published under the house name Ben M. Baglio (USA) and Lucy Daniels (UK). The series was continued with two more books which were not written by Tuttle.)
Into the Blue (2000) Touching the Waves (2000) Riding the Storm (2000) Under the Stars (2000) Chasing the Dream (2001) Racing the Wind (2001) Following the Rainbow (2001) Dancing the Seas (2002)
Story collections A Nest of Nightmares (1986) A Spaceship Built of Stone and Other Stories (1987) Memories of the Body: Tales of Desire and Transformation (1990) Ghosts and Other Lovers (2001) My Pathology (2001) Stranger in the House: The Collected Short Supernatural Fiction, Volume One (2010) Objects in Dreams (2012) The Dead Hours of Night (2021) Riding the Nightmare (2023)
Short stories “The Bone Flute” (1981), Nebula Award winner (declined). “The Curious Affair of the Deodand” (2011), in the urban fantasy anthology Down These Strange Streets, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois “The Curious Affair of the Dead Wives” (2014), in the cross-genre anthology Rogues, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
Non-fiction Children's Literary Houses (1984) (with Rosalind Ashe) Encyclopedia of Feminism (1986) Heroines: Women Inspired by Women (1988) Mark Harrison's Dreamlands (1990) (with Mark Harrison) Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction (2002)
As editor Skin of the Soul: New Horror Stories by Women (1990) Crossing the Border: Tales of Erotic Ambiguity (1998)
Awards
Work Year & Award Category Result Ref.The Storms of Windhaven
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Who is Lisa Tuttle?
American-British writer (born 1952)
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Lisa Tuttle was born on 16 September 1952 in Houston.
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Lisa Tuttle is a novelist, writer, science fiction writer and journalist.
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Lisa Tuttle is American and British.
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