Larry Dixon

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-08-06

Larry Dixon is an American fantasy artist, novelist, and birds-of-prey rehabilitation specialist, born July 28, 1966. He studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Savannah College of Art and Design. Beyond his fiction writing, Dixon has worked as a storm spotter and volunteer firefighter, and has contributed illustration work to tabletop role-playing game sourcebooks including GURPS, Talislanta, and Dungeons & Dragons. He is best known for collaborating with his wife, author Mercedes Lackey, on several fantasy series, including The Owl Trilogy, The Mage Wars Trilogy, and the SERRAted Edge novels, and he served as illustrator for Lackey's novel Storm Breaking. Together, the couple has rehabilitated and released more than four hundred hawks, owls, falcons, and ravens back into the wild through their raptor rehabilitation work. Dixon also contributed to the film industry, providing reference photography of a golden eagle to Weta Digital to aid in texture mapping for visual effects work on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. He married Mercedes Lackey in 1992, and the couple resides in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area, where they continue their combined careers in fiction, illustration, and wildlife rehabilitation.

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Books

• The Black Gryphon (1994) · Valdemar Core Canon
• The White Gryphon (1995) · Valdemar Core Canon
• The Silver Gryphon (1996) · Valdemar Core Canon
• Owlflight (1997) · Valdemar Core Canon
• Owlsight (1998) · Valdemar Core Canon
• Owlknight (1999) · Valdemar Core Canon
• Gryphon in Light (2023) · Valdemar Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 41 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 7 (1 won, 4 finalist mention, 2 nomination)

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