Biography

Robin Hobb

• real name is Margaret Astrid Ogden
• was born in Berekeley, California in 1952
• grew up in Fairbansk, Alaska
• has lived also in Denver, Kodiak (Alaska) and Hawaii
• majored in Communications at Denver University, Colorado
• lives now in Tacoma, Washington state
• has four children with her husband, Fred
• started her career writing short stories for children's magazines and moved to fantasy and novels about 10 years later

Robin Hobb began her writing career as Megan Lindolm which is her maiden name, but changed to Robin Hobb when she started the Farseer trilogy. She still writes as Megan Lindholm too. She says that Megan also writes fantasy, "but with a little grittier edge." Hobb's voice is, she feels, "stronger and more prone to living large. Megan is sometimes more playful. Sometimes sillier. Robin Hobb writes very epic fantasies and that's where I'm comfortable with that."
(January Magazine, 1999)
She has also written one SF novel, Alien Earth.

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