Fay Sampson (born 10 June 1935)
is a British writer of
speculative fiction
Speculative fiction is a term that has been used with a variety of (sometimes contradictory) meanings. The broadest interpretation is as a category of fiction encompassing genres with elements that do not exist in reality, recorded history, na ...
, predominantly known for the ''
Daughter of Tintagel'', ''Pangur Ban'', and ''Sorcerer'' fiction series.
Biography
Sampson earned a degree in mathematics in 1956 from the University College of the South West of England, now
Exeter University.
She taught at two English high schools, one in
Mytholmroyd (1957–1958), and the other in
Nottingham (1959–1960).
She and her husband lived for a time in
Rhodesia
Rhodesia (, ), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was the ''de facto'' successor state to the British colony of S ...
, where she ran a college library in
Serenje from 1962 to 1964.
After Rhodesia's independence and transition to
Zambia, she moved back to Devon, and began writing children's novels.
Select bibliography
''Daughter of Tintagel''
A series of historical fantasy novels based on
Morgan le Fay.
* ''Wise Woman's Telling'' (1989)
* ''White Nun's Telling'' (1989)
* ''Black Smith's Telling'' (1990)
* ''Taliesin's Telling'' (1991)
* ''Herself'' (1992)
Pangur Ban
Series of books based on the Old Irish poem,
Pangur Bán
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.
* ''Pangur Ban, the White Cat'' (1983)
* ''Finnglas of the Horses'' (1985)
* ''Finnglas and the Stones of Choosing'' (1986)
* ''Shape Shifter - The Naming of Pangur Ban'' (1988)
* ''The Serpent of Senargad'' (1989)
* ''The White Horse Is Running'' (1990)
''Sorcerer''
* ''The Sorcerer's Trap'' (2005)
* ''The Sorcerer's Daughter'' (2007)
Standalone novels
* ''F.67'' (1975)
* ''The Watch on Patterick Fell'' (1978)
* ''The Chains of Sleep'' (1981)
* ''Star Dancer'' (1993)
* ''Them'' (2003)
References
External links
*
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Living people
1935 births
Writers from Plymouth, Devon
English science fiction writers
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
Writers of modern Arthurian fiction