Creative imagination, strong, fleshed-out characters, compelling style, an uncanny ability to make all totally credible combine to involve readers from the first pages, never releasing them until long after the last page." And as a contributor for
St. James Guide to Young Adult Writers noted, "As long as inheritance is both desirable and frightful, and adolescence is a terrifying time of crisis and loss of control, the work of Marion Zimmer Bradley will have appeal for young adults."
Bradley grew up in Albany, New York, and focused on reading and schoolwork to escape family troubles. She excelled in school and once recalled that, while it wasn't popular for girls to show their smarts, "I thought most of the time that having brains was just fine, and I built my life on it, since I was stuck with it anyhow." Her academic achievements earned her a National Merit Scholarship, and at age sixteen Bradley graduated from high school. "I went to college and, almost at the same time, discovered pulp science fiction," she once said. "I think I can honestly say this was the turning point of my life."
Bradley had always harbored a desire to write; "I'm told that I started dictating poems to my mother before I could print," she related in Daryl Lane, William Vernon, and David Carson's The Sound of Wonder.
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