Delia Sherman

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Cordelia Caroline Sherman, known as Delia Sherman, was born in 1951 in Tokyo, Japan, and attended The Chapin School in New York. She earned her A.B. from Vassar College in 1972, an M.A. from Brown University in 1975, and a Ph.D. from Brown University in 1981. She worked as a lecturer at Boston University (1978–1987, 1989–1992), as a reviewer for multiple publications (1988–1989), and as a consulting editor at Tor Books (1996–2004). Since 1993 she has been a full-time writer, lecturer, and teacher, instructing at prestigious workshops including Clarion, WisCon, and Odyssey. Her adult fantasy novels include Through a Brazen Mirror (1988), The Porcelain Dove (1993), and The Fall of the Kings (2002), co-written with her wife, fellow fantasy author Ellen Kushner. Her young adult works include Changeling (2006), The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen (2009), and The Freedom Maze (2011), and she has also edited anthologies including The Horns of Elfland and The Essential Bordertown. The Porcelain Dove won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and The Freedom Maze won both the Prometheus Award and the Andre Norton Award in 2012; she was also a Campbell Award finalist in 1989. Sherman resides in New York City with Kushner, whom she married in 1996.

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• The Fall of the Kings (2002) · Riverside Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 3 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 3 (1 won, 2 nomination)

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