Sarah Lotz is a British novelist, author and screenwriter from South Africa, best known for her horror fiction novel The Three.
Biography
Sarah Lotz was born in
Wolverhampton
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, England. She left home as a teenager and briefly lived in
Paris
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and
Israel
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before settling in
South Africa
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, where she lived for about twenty years, working as a writer and artist. She married but the marriage ended in divorce. She received an honours degree in English at the
University of Cape Town
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. In 2015 she returned to live in the UK. Lotz publishes under her own name and a number of pseudonyms. She is, with author Louis Greenberg, the urban horror novelist S.L Grey, with her daughter
Savannah Lotz she is Lily Herne and she is Helena S. Paige when she writes with
Helen Moffett and
Paige Nick. Lotz is published by Hodder and Little, Brown. She lives in Cape Town and Shropshire, UK.
Bibliography
* ''The Three'' (2012)
* ''Dark Harvest'' (2014)
* ''Day Four'' (2015)
* ''Pompidou Posse'' (2015)
* ''Skin Deep'' (2016)
* ''Body in the Woods'' (2017)
* ''The White Road'' (2017)
* ''Reborn'' (2018)
* ''Missing Person'' (2019)
* ''Impossible Us'' (2022)
As SL Grey
*''The Mall'' (2011)
*''The Ward'' (2012)
*''The New Girl'' (2013)
*''The Ward / The Mall / The New Girl'' (2015)
*''The Apartment'' (2016)
As Lily Herne
*''Deadlands'' (2012)
*''Death of a Saint'' (2013)
*''The Army Of The Lost'' (2014)
*''Ash Remains'' (2016)
References and sources
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People from Wolverhampton
Writers from Cape Town
21st-century British women writers
21st-century South African women writers
Living people
21st-century British screenwriters
1971 births