Lawrence Watt-Evans

Lawrence Watt-Evans (born 1954) is the pseudonym of American fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans. Born in eastern Massachusetts as the fourth of six children, he made his first attempts at professional writing when he was eight.

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1954 - Pseudonym - American - Fantasy - Massachusetts

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After graduating from Bedford High School in Bedford, MA, he attended Princeton University but left without a degree. He began to seriously try to sell his writing during a break in his college career, but sold nothing significant until he produced The Lure of the Basilisk in 1978 (published 1980) and thereupon began writing full time. He initially marketed his work under other names; it was the editor of his first novel, Lester Del Rey, who first demanded he use his real name and then created the pseudonym Lawrence Watt-Evans. Evans had insisted on including his middle name to avoid confusion with a contemporary non-fiction writer also named Lawrence Evans, and del Rey had then added the hyphen "to make it more distinctive," thereby relegating Watt-Evans to the bottom shelves in alphabetically-arranged bookstores.

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Bedford High School - Bedford, MA - Princeton University - The Lure of the Basilisk - 1978 - 1980 - Lester Del Rey - Lawrence Evans

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Watt-Evans was president of the Horror Writers of America from 1994 to 1996, and has also served as Eastern Regional Director and treasurer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

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Horror Writers of America - 1994 - 1996 - Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

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In April of 2005, Watt-Evans announced that his latest novel, The Spriggan Mirror, would be made available for free online on a chapter-by-chapter basis, using a modified version of the Street Performer Protocol.

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