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drunkandmuddledangels · 2 years ago

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How are we defining fantasy author?

Because chronologically for me I think it would be Ruth Stiles Gannett, author of My Father’s Dragon and its sequels.

But this poll is also missing such luminaries and gateway authors as Gail Carson Levine, Eva Ibbotson, Jane Yolen, Patrica C. Wrede, Ursula K. Le Guin, Madeline l’Engle, CS Lewis, Bruce Coville, Sir Terry Pratchett, and tumblr’s own Diane Duane and Neil Gaiman, the majority of whom I was reading in the mushy haze of memory known as “elementary school.”

#T Pierce (also on tumblr at one point) was a big one for me #as was DWJ #and (BIG SIGH) the world’s most famous terf unfortunately #also lol at the idea I waited to be a teen to awkwardly wish I was magic #but my mom read My Father’s Dragon to me #so Ruth Stiles Gannett was definitely first #there’s a somewhat pendantic argument to be made for Seuss tbh #Ibbotson Le Guin Wrede and Levine were all earlier I think #Lewis and DWJ a little after that #L’Engle Yolen Pierce and DD were all roughly third grade #I found Sir Pterry and Neil tragically late #I was already in HIGH SCHOOL

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