Robin McKinley

Robin McKinley (born November 16, 1952 as Jennifer Carolyn Robin Turrell McKinley) is a fantasy author especially known for her Newbery Medal-winning novel The Hero and the Crown. She has also won a Newbery Honor for The Blue Sword, the Mythopoeic Award for Sunshine, the World Fantasy Award for Imaginary Lands, and the 1998 Phoenix Award honor book for Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast.

Robin McKinley grew up an only child with a military father. According to her, she moved around frequently as a child and read copiously; she credits this background with the inspiration for her stories. Married to a British writer, Peter Dickinson, McKinley lives in England.

Selected Bibliography

Series

• Damar
  • 1 The Blue Sword (1982)
  • 2 Door in the Hedge (1982)
  • 3 The Hero and the Crown (1984)
  • 4 The Outlaws of Sherwood (1988)
  • 5 Deerskin (1993)

• Folktales
  • Beauty (1978)
  • Rose Daughter (1997)
  • Spindle's End (2000)

Novels

• Light Princess (1988)
• Rowan (1992)
• The Stone Fey (1998)
• Sunshine (2003)

Collections

• The Door in the Hedge (1982)
• A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories (1994)
• Water: Tales of Elemenal Spirits (2002) with Peter Dickinson

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