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Leonard Paul Carpenter (born February 6, 1948) is an American writer of
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and
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. He writes as Leonard Carpenter and Leonard P. Carpenter.


Life

Carpenter was born in 1948 in
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, but aside from a year in
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in childhood has lived most of his life in
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.Author profile on Amazon.com
He married Cheryl Lynn Chrisman on October 10, 1970, in
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. They attended
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, from which they both graduated, and had two daughters and a son. The Carpenters lived in
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from 1975 to 2003, and continued to reside on the
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thereafter. Cheryl, a schoolteacher, retired in 2013 and died January 24, 2014, after a year-long fight with cancer."Cheryl Lynn Chrisman Carpenter, 1947-2014." Obituary in the ''Santa Maria Times'', Santa Maria, California, January 28, 2014. Since her death Carpenter has traveled and worked on book projects.


Works

Among Carpenter's works are eleven Conan novels published by
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. He has also written the science fiction novel ''Fatal Strain'', later re-titled ''Biohacker'', the historical fiction novel ''Lusitania Lost'', and a number of short stories, articles and poems. Carpenter's writing has been published in the magazines ''
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'', ''
Asimov's Science Fiction ''Asimov's Science Fiction'' is an American science fiction magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy named after science fiction author Isaac Asimov. It is currently published by Penny Publications. From January 2017, the publication ...
'', ''Eldrich Tales'', and ''2AM'', as well as the anthologies ''Dark Lessons'' (1985), '' L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume I'' (1985), '' The Year's Best Horror Stories XIV'' (1986), ''Horrorstory Volume 5'' (1989), '' The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVII'' (1989), ''Short Sharp Shocks'' (1990), ''The Cthulhu Cycle'' (1996), ''Serve It Forth — Cooking With Anne McCaffrey'' (1996), '' L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XV'' (1999), and '' L. Ron Hubbard Presents the Best of Writers of the Future'' (2000).


Awards

Carpenter has been the recipient of the
Writers of the Future Writers of the Future (WOTF) is a science fiction and fantasy story contest that was established by L. Ron Hubbard in the early 1980s. A sister contest, Illustrators of the Future, presents awards for science fiction art. Hubbard characterized th ...
award and the Origins Award for Best Game Related Fiction.


Bibliography


Conan novels

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Conan the Renegade ''Conan the Renegade'' is a fantasy novel by American writer Leonard Carpenter, featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in paperback by Tor Books in April 1986. The first British edition was ...
'' (1986) *''
Conan the Raider ''Conan the Raider'' is a fantasy novel by American writer Leonard Carpenter, featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in paperback by Tor Books in October 1986. It was reprinted by Tor i ...
'' (1986) *''
Conan the Warlord ''Conan the Warlord'' is a fantasy novel by American writer Leonard Carpenter, featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in paperback by Tor Books in March 1988, and was reprinted in April ...
'' (1988) *''
Conan the Hero ''Conan the Hero'' is a fantasy novel by American writer Leonard Carpenter, featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian and his black counterpart Juma of Kush, a character originally created by L. Sprague de Camp a ...
'' (1989) *''
Conan the Great ''Conan the Great'' is a fantasy novel by American writer Leonard Carpenter, featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in paperback by Tor Books in April 1990 (the 1989 date appearing on the ...
'' (1989) *''
Conan the Outcast ''Conan the Outcast'' is a fantasy novel written by Leonard Carpenter featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in paperback by Tor Books in April 1991, and was reprinted in February 1998. ...
'' (1991) *''
Conan the Savage ''Conan the Savage'' is a fantasy novel by American writer Leonard Carpenter featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in trade paperback by Tor Books in November 1992; a regular paperback ...
'' (1992) *''
Conan of the Red Brotherhood ''Conan of the Red Brotherhood'' is a fantasy novel by American writer Leonard Carpenter featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in paperback by Tor Books in February 1993, and reprinted in ...
'' (1993) *''
Conan, Scourge of the Bloody Coast ''Conan, Scourge of the Bloody Coast'' is a fantasy novel by American writer Leonard Carpenter featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in paperback by Tor Books in April 1994. Plot Conan, ...
'' (1994) *''
Conan the Gladiator ''Conan the Gladiator'' is a fantasy novel by American writer Leonard Carpenter, featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in paperback by Tor Books in January 1995 and was reprinted in Augu ...
'' (1995) *''
Conan, Lord of the Black River ''Conan, Lord of the Black River'' is a fantasy novel by American writer Leonard Carpenter, featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in paperback by Tor Books Tor Books is the primary ...
'' (1996)


Other

*''Fatal Strain'' (2003 - electronic publication only) *
Biohacker
' (2020) (Re-issue of ''Fatal Strain'') *
Lusitania Lost
' (2017) *''The Chronicles of Creighton Craven'' (unpublished)


Short stories

*"Dead Week" (1984) *"The Ebbing" (1985) *"Endangered Species" (1985) *"Fearing's Fall" (1987) *"Recrudescence" (1988) *"The Eighth Plague" (1989) *"The Hagen Project" (1990) *"Torso" (1991)


Poetry

*"The Devourer" (1987) *"The Egg" (1987) *"The Fungoid Intruder" (1987) *"The Priests" (1987) *"The Combatants" (1988) *"The Catcher" (1989) *"The Hoard" (1989) *"The Miser" (1989)


Nonfiction

*"Rondrini's Linguini and Clam Sauce" (1996)


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carpenter, Leonard 1948 births Living people American fantasy writers 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American writers American male novelists Conan the Barbarian novelists 20th-century American male writers