Simon Richard Green (born 25 August 1955) is a British

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and

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author. Green was born in

Bradford on Avon Bradford-on-Avon (sometimes Bradford on Avon or Bradford upon Avon) is a town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England, near the border with Somerset, which had a population of 9,402 at the 2011 census. The town's canal, historic buildings, s ...

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. He holds a degree in modern English and American literature from the

University of Leicester , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_lab ...

. He began his writing career in 1973, sold his first story "Manslayer" in 1976, and published his first full-length work, '' Awake, Awake, Ye Northern Winds'' in 1979. Green began his rise to success in 1988 when he sold seven novels and in 1989 when he received a commission to write the bestselling novelization of the

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film '' Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'', which has sold more than 370,000 copies. In the 1990's, Green was publishing regularly through

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. He currently resides in

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where he continues to write. Green's novels have been described as fantasy set in contemporary urban settings "that are slightly off", as well as a "writer of both space opera and

heroic fantasy Heroic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy in which events occur in a world where magic is prevalent and modern technology is nonexistent. The setting may be entirely fictitious in nature or based upon Earth with some additions. Unlike dark fiction ...

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Simon R. Green Official Site (archive.org)
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Simon R. Living people 1955 births British fantasy writers Urban fantasy writers People from Bradford-on-Avon English male novelists

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