L. Jagi Lamplighter is an American children's and

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children's writer and editor.

Personal life

Lamplighter graduated from St. John's College in

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. She is married to fellow author John C. Wright, and has four children. Lamplighter is a

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Works

''Prospero's Daughter'' trilogy

Lamplighter's first three published novels form the ''Prospero's Daughter'' trilogy, whose narrator Miranda is the daughter of the magician

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from

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's '' The Tempest.'' Set in the present day, it portrays Miranda and her siblings attempting to rescue their father from a

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similar to Dante's Inferno. The trilogy received favorable starred reviews in ''

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'', which called the third novel "a satisfyingly epic combination of mythology, theology, and Shakespeare" and "intricate, intellectual fantasy at its best". ''

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'' gave the first novel a mixed review, calling the protagonists unpleasant, distant and cold, but was more favorably disposed towards the two other novels. The series has been mentioned in an article in ''

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'' as "exemplifying the lure of reimagining Shakespeare's characters and their lives". *''Prospero Lost'' (August 4, 2009): *''Prospero in Hell'' (August 17, 2010): *''Prospero Regained'' (September 13, 2011):

''Books of Unexpected Enlightenment''

The series follows the adventures of Rachel Griffin, the teenage daughter of an English duke who is attending Roanoke Academy for the Sorcerous Arts, a magic school based vaguely on St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, but set in New York's Hudson Highlands. The series includes: *''The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin'', September 2013, *''The Raven, the Elf, and Rachel'', October 2014, *''Rachel and the Many-Splendored Dreamland'', October 2016, *''The Awful Truth About Forgetting'', November 2017,

Other works

Lamplighter has published several fantasy short stories, including in the '' Bad Ass Faeries'' series of anthologies which she co-edits.

References

External links

Official websiteWebsite of the Roanoke Academy for the Sorcerous Arts
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