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N. Lee Wood
Born (1955-11-15) November 15, 1955 (age 68)
Connecticut, United States
CitizenshipNew Zealand
EducationOpen University
OccupationWriter
SpouseNorman Spinrad (m. 1990–2005)

N. Lee Wood (born November 15, 1955) is an American author. She has written science fiction, fantasy, crime and mainstream novels.

Biography

N. Lee Wood was born November 15, 1955, in Hartford, Connecticut. She became a naturalized citizen of New Zealand in November, 2020.

She holds a Master's degree in English literature from the Open University of Great Britain.

She is an alumnus of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Wood has travelled widely, and lived in the UK, France, Australia, and New Zealand.

She was married to author Norman Spinrad from 1990 to 2005.[1]

Awards and honors

Her novel Looking for the Mahdi was nominated for the 1997 Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Selected works

Novels

  • Faraday's Orphans (1995)
  • Looking for the Mahdi[2] (1996)
  • Bloodrights (1999)
  • Master of None (2002)
  • Redemption (as Lee Jackson, 2007)

Inspector Keen Dunliffe Series

  • Kingdom of Lies (2005)
  • Kingdom of Silence (2009)

Short fiction

  • "Molly Haskowin" (1990)
  • "Memories that Dance Like Dust in the Summer Heat" (1990)
  • "In the Land of No" (1991)
  • "Three Merry Pranksters at the Louvre" (2000)[3]
  • "Thicker than Water" (2001)
  • "Balzac" (2003)
  • "Scapegoats" (2014)

Anthologies

Essays

  • "Report from Clarion West" (1985)
  • "Magnum Opus Con (III)" (1988)
  • "1988 World Sf Meeting in Budapest" (1989)
  • "ABA, Parisienne Style" (1989)
  • "SF in France" (Locus #357) (1990)
  • "World SF Meeting at Den Haag" (1990)
  • "Parcon '90 Report" (1991)
  • "SF in France" (Locus #372) (1992)
  • "1992 Salon du Livre" (1992)
  • "Freucon/1992 World SF Meeting" (1992)
  • "Étonnants Voyaguers Festival" (1993)
  • "1993 Salon du Livre" (1993)

References

  1. ^ Bio
  2. ^ Looking for the Mahdi by N. Lee Wood – Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists
  3. ^ Wood, N. Lee (June 2000). "Three merry pranksters at the Louvre". F&SF. 98 (6): 47–67.
  4. ^ Amazon.com: Romanin SF Anthology: Nemira ' 94 (9789735690298): Romulus Barbulescu, George Anania, N. Lee Wood, Norman Spinrad: Books