Antonia Hodgson

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Antonia Hodgson was born in Derby, England, in 1971, and earned a degree in English Literature from the University of Leeds in 1994. She spent close to two decades working in publishing, beginning at Harcourt Brace and rising to editor-in-chief at Little, Brown, before beginning her own writing career. She has written four historical crime novels set in Georgian England, beginning with A Devil in the Marshalsea (2014), followed by The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins (2015), A Death at Fountains Abbey (2016), and The Silver Collar (2020), and one epic fantasy novel, The Raven Scholar (2025), the first book of a planned trilogy called The Eternal Path. A Devil in the Marshalsea won the 2014 Historical Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association, The Silver Collar was shortlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown, and The Raven Scholar was a finalist for the 2026 Hugo Award and won the 2026 Astounding Award for Best New Writer.

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• The Raven Scholar (2025) · The Raven Scholar Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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