But the series featuring Comte de Saint-Germain, or Count Saint-Germain, is only a small part of the production of this prolific writer who deals in genres including horror, romance, fantasy, gothic, science fiction, suspense, historical mysteries, and even westerns. Writing under a variety of pen names, Yarbro has crafted over sixty tales for both adults and young adults.
From Maps to Novels
Born in Berkeley, California in 1942, Yarbro wanted to be a writer from an early age. Attending San Francisco State College, she took a playwriting course that taught her an elemental fact about heroes: they are only as good as the villain is bad. This advice she tucked away; meanwhile she worked in children's theater in the San Francisco Bay area and then for her parent's cartography firm until that business failed in 1970. In 1969 she married and also began writing and composing music.
Yarbro was soon selling her stories to science fiction magazines and anthologies. Her first novel, Time of the Fourth Horseman, a suspense story, was published in 1976. Also that same year she published the first of four books in her "Charlie Moon" series, about the adventures of a Native American detective who uses shaman-like powers to aid in his investigations.
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