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| Patricia A. McKillip | |
Patricia A. McKillip, the fantasy author best known for The Forgotten Beasts of Eld and the Riddle-Master trilogy, died on May 6, Locus magazine reported. She was 74.
McKillip's writing career began in 1973 with the publication of The Throme of the Erril of Sherill and The House on Parchment Street, both for younger readers. In 1974, she published her first adult novel, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, which won a World Fantasy Award, and followed that soon after with the Riddle-Master trilogy, consisting of The Riddle-Master of Hed (1976), Heir of Sea and Fire (1977) and Harpist in the Wind (1979). The trilogy's final book won a Locus Award and was a finalist for both the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.
Along with fantasy novels, she would go on to write science fiction novels such as Foo's Run (1987), contemporary fiction like Stepping from the Shadows (1982) and books for both children and adults. In addition to winning the Locus and World Fantasy Awards, she won the Mythopoeic Award four times, for Something Rich and Strange (1994), Ombria in Shadow (2002), Solstice Wood (2006) and Kingfisher (2016). In 2008, she received a World Fantasy Life Achievement Award.