Piers Anthony Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 14 pages of information about the life of Piers Anthony.

Piers Anthony Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 14 pages of information about the life of Piers Anthony.
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Piers Anthony is widely known in the science fiction and fantasy genres for his many popular series--including the ongoing "Magic of Xanth" novels--and his various novels and collections; he has published more than one hundred books since 1967. "I am an SF writer today," he told Cliff Biggers in a Science Fiction interview, "because without SF and writing I would be nothing at all today."

Within a childhood affected by illness and isolation, Anthony escaped by immersing himself in books. "From the time I was 13, I had been hooked on science fiction," Anthony recalled in an interview with the Science Fiction Radio Show (SFRS) published in The Sound of Wonder. "It's what I did for entertainment. It was a whole different world, multiple worlds, each one of them better than the one I knew. And so when I thought about writing [science fiction], I thought I could be original...

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