The first book of this quartet, Alanna: The First Adventure was published by Atheneum Books in 1983. While at Penn she wrote the books that became The Song of the Lioness quartet. She is an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania. When her family moved again, she spent her senior year at Uniontown Area Senior High School, acting, singing, and writing for the school paper. After her parents divorced, her mother moved her and her sisters back to Fayette County in 1969, where she spent two years at Albert Gallatin Senior High. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and so she started to write the kind of books that she was reading. Her interest in fantasy and science fiction began when she was introduced to J. She began reading when she was very young and started writing when she was in the sixth grade.
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They lived in Miramar for half a year, in El Granada a full year, and then three years in Burlingame. They first lived in San Mateo on El Camino Real and then moved to the other side of the San Francisco Peninsula, in Miramar. In June 1963 she and her family moved to California. From the time she was five until she was eight, she lived in Dunbar. When she was five, her sister Kimberly (on whom she based Alanna) was born and a year later her second sister, Melanie, was born. Her mother wanted to name her "Tamara" but the nurse who filled out her birth certificate misspelled it as "Tamora". Pierce was born in South Connellsville, Pennsylvania in Fayette County, on December 13, 1954. Pierce's books have been translated into twenty languages. The annual award recognizes one writer and a particular body of work for "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature". Edwards Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) of the American Library Association in 2013, citing her two quartets Song of the Lioness and Protector of the Small (1999–2002). She made a name for herself with her first book series, The Song of the Lioness (1983–1988), which followed the main character Alanna through the trials and triumphs of training as a knight. Tamora Pierce (born December 13, 1954) is an American writer of fantasy fiction for teenagers, known best for stories featuring young heroines. South Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, US
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There are three separate series so far, mostly following the same four protagonists as they go from childhood to adulthood.Pierce at the Boskone science fiction convention in Boston, February 2008 There is also a greater focus on magic and its study, and avoiding the standard High Fantasy stories of warfare and politics.
A Swords and Sorcery setting focused mainly on the titular nation.Her name is the result of a typo on her birth certificate, and is pronounced the same as "Tamara."
As her writing suggests, it has a strongly liberal slant. She had a LiveJournal account, Dare To Be Stupid, appropriately subtitled "Strong Opinion Zone", although most of her blogging was moved to her other, more lighthearted fan LJ here. She has also written number of short stories set in and out of her main 'verses, published in various magazines such as Cricket. She also edited the short story anthology Young Warriors, and wrote a White Tiger miniseries for Marvel Comics with her husband, following Angela del Toro, niece of the original hero to bear the name.
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