Priestess of Avalon

Diana L. Paxson writes fantasy, most notably her Avalon series which includes Priestess of Avalon and Ancestors of Avalon. She also explores paganism and mythology in books like In Celebration of Lammas Night, and has contributed to science fiction.

Marion Zimmer was born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the Great Depression. As a child, she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy stories. She began writing them herself in 1949 and sold her first story to Vortex in 1952. She also married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Early in her career, she used pseudonyms for stories she wrote outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels such as I Am a Lesbian (1962). In 1964 she divorced her first husband...