Sanders Anne Laubenthal (December 25, 1943 – May 15, 2002) was an American

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and textbook writer.

Life

Laubenthal served the

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from the time of the

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, starting writing

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books for trainees in

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style to train for lower level jobs such as dining hall cooks. She served as editor of many Air Force professional journals. Having reached the rank of Major in the Air Force, she retired, but continued to do research and write many reports/articles for the military. She had just finished her last military project and received payment for another reprint for ''Excalibur'' before she died from

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complications. Friends describe her as a quiet lady who was loyal and always creating.

Literary career

Much of Laubenthal's work concerns Mobile,

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, of which she was a native. She also wrote about the history of unrecorded areas of Scotland. She is best known, however, for one major work, the Arthurian

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'' Excalibur'', first published in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in August 1973 and reprinted a number of times since.

Bibliography

Novels

*''The Last Confederate'' (1967) *'' Excalibur'' (1973)

Poetry

*''Songs of Mobile'' (1962) *''The Gates of Wonder'' (1966) *''Interlude and Other Poems'' (1969)

Nonfiction

*''A History of John Hay Air Base, Baguio City, Philippines'' (1981)

External links

The Excalibur Project
- fansite for Sanders Anne Laubenthal's ''Excalibur''.

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Laubenthal, Sanders Anne 1943 births 2002 deaths 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American historians American women novelists Writers of modern Arthurian fiction Deaths from diabetes American fantasy writers United States Air Force officers 20th-century American women writers American women historians American women poets Women science fiction and fantasy writers 20th-century American poets