Author · born 1951
Barbara Hambly
Barbara Hambly (born 1951) is an American fiction writer. Born in San Diego.
Our catalogue lists 3 books by Barbara Hambly, mostly dragon fantasy, time-travel fiction and witch fiction. They span 1985 to 1987. The most-read is Dragonsbane (1986).
Books by Barbara Hambly
Dragonsbane
Barbara Hambly
Star Trek - Ishmael
Barbara Hambly
Thew itches of Wenshar
Barbara Hambly
Awards
- ✦Locus Awards 2020 — Best Horror Novel, Prisoner of Midnight (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2004 — Best Collection, Budayeen Nights (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2001 — Best Fantasy Novel, Knight of the Demon Queen (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2000 — Best Fantasy Novel, Dragonshadow (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1997 — Best Fantasy Novel, Mother of Winter (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1996 — Best Horror Novel, Traveling with the Dead (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1995 — Best Horror Novel, Bride of the Rat God (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1994 — Best Fantasy Novel, Dog Wizard (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1993 — Best Fantasy Novel, The Magicians of Night (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1992 — Best Fantasy Novel, The Rainbow Abyss (nominee)
- 🏆Locus Awards 1989 — Best Horror Novel, Those Who Hunt the Night (winner)
- ✦Locus Awards 1988 — Best Fantasy Novel, The Witches of Wenshar (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1987 — Best Fantasy Novel, Dragonsbane (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1986 — Best Fantasy Novel, Dragonsbane (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1985 — Best Fantasy Novel, The Ladies of Mandrigyn (nominee)
- ✦Mythopoeic Awards 1986 — Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, Dragonsbane (nominee)
Biography
Barbara Hambly (born August 28, 1951) is an American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction. She has a bestselling mystery series featuring a free man of color, a musician and physician, in New Orleans in the antebellum years. She also wrote a novel about Mary Todd Lincoln. Her science fiction novels occur within an explicit multiverse, as well as within previously existing settings (notably as established by Star Trek and Star Wars).