Unicorn Variations

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Roger Zelazny was born in Cleveland, Ohio, graduated from Case Western Reserve University and went to Columbia University for a master's degree. He worked for the Social Security Administration in Cleveland and then in Baltimore until he quit to begin writing full-time in 1969.

His first appearances in the field were short stories with his earliest story of note being "A Rose for Ecclesiastes." Shortly thereafter he won the first of his several Hugo and Nebula awards, the Hugo for . . . And Call Me Conrad (later published in book form as This Immortal, 1966) and "The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth." Two years later he won the Hugo Award again for his most famous novel, Lord of Light (1967). He has continued to produce a body of significant work in the shorter lengths, winning both the Nebula and Hugo awards for best novella for "Home Is the Hangman," while producing many popular novels including the five-volume "Amber" series, beginning with Nine Princes in Amber in 1970 and concluding with The Courts of Chaos in 1978. His most recent novel is Eye of Cat.

Although sometimes associated with the New Wave movement popular in science fiction circles at the time when he first began publishing, especially because of the richness of his imagery and his poetically charged style, Zelazny has always been truly independent of literary movements, perpetually creating interesting and exciting stories and telling them in his own way.

Zelazny lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife and three children—two sons and a daughter.