Nancy Springer

4 universes Last reviewed 2026-11-02

Nancy Springer was born on July 5, 1948, in Montclair, New Jersey, and moved to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, at thirteen, where her parents bought a motel that she helped run. She attended Gettysburg College, taught high school briefly, and has written professionally since 1972. She later taught at several Pennsylvania colleges and, from 1997, joined the faculty of the master's program in popular fiction at Seton Hill University. She raised two children in Pennsylvania and moved to Bonifay, Florida, in 2007; her hobbies include birdwatching, horseback riding and fishing. Her work includes adult fantasy such as The White Hart and The Book of Suns, the novels Larque on the Wing and Fair Peril, the Rowan Hood books, I Am Mordred, and the Enola Holmes Mysteries, which began in 2006.

Universe(s)

Books

• The White Hart (1979) · The Book of the Isle Core Canon
• The Silver Sun (1980) · The Book of the Isle Core Canon
• The Sable Moon (1981) · The Book of the Isle Core Canon
• The Black Beast (1982) · The Book of the Isle Core Canon
• The Golden Swan (1983) · The Book of the Isle Core Canon
• Fair Peril (1996) · Fair Peril Core Canon
• I Am Mordred (1998) · A Tale from Camelot Core Canon
• I Am Morgan le Fay (2001) · A Tale from Camelot Core Canon
• Dusssie (2007) · Dusssie Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

These are separate, unrelated universes; the totals below are plain sums of already-published per-universe facts, never a blended or averaged score across them. See each universe's own figures above.

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 9 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 4 (1 won, 3 nomination)

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