Scott Lynch

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-08-06

Scott Lynch is an American fantasy author born April 2, 1978, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the eldest of three brothers, who worked various jobs including dishwasher, busboy, waiter, web designer, office manager, and prep cook before becoming a full-time writer. He trained and certified as a firefighter at Anoka Technical College in Minnesota in 2005 and served as a paid-on-call firefighter for New Richmond, Wisconsin, from 2005 to 2016. His debut novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, was published in 2006, launching the Gentleman Bastard Sequence, the series for which he is best known and which continued with Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007) and The Republic of Thieves (2013); he also serialized the novel Queen of the Iron Sands online between 2009 and 2012. He won the Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award from the British Fantasy Society in 2008 and has received nominations for the World Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and multiple Locus Awards. He married fantasy author Elizabeth Bear in October 2016.

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Books

• The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006) · The Gentleman Bastards Core Canon
• Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007) · The Gentleman Bastards Core Canon
• The Republic of Thieves (2013) · The Gentleman Bastards Core Canon
• Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent (2024) · The Gentleman Bastards Expanded Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 3 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 5 (2 finalist mention, 3 nomination)

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