

While at Mills, she minored in French and Art and majored in English literature, and she was inspired by Dr. Once she came to northern California, she realized that it was her spiritual home, and settled there for good. Lewis had called Northerness, and the very first book that she ever read that gave her a sense of what it would be like to live with a totally different world view.ĭespite the fact she went through a lot of her earlier schooling with a textbook on her desk and a novel in her lap, she got accepted at Mills College in Oakland. The book that impressed her the most, however, was Poul Anderson’s The Broken Sword. She spent many summers at Camp Trinity in the far north of California, which became the setting for the first novel on Westria.ĭuring junior high, her heroes included D’Artagnan, Sherlock Holmes, Horatio Hornblower, and Andy Burnett.

However her favorite occupation was reading anything and everything that she could get her hands on, from her dad’s sci-fi collection, old Readers’ Digest, mythology and archaeology. While just an only child, she spent a bunch of time roaming the still wild hills, trying to figure out how to make things (like yarn from dog hair, pots from local clay, and mini houses thatched with grass clippings), and drawing horses. Diana grew up in the Pacific Palisades on the coast of Southern California. She counts the true start of her life from the move west she and her family made when she was three years old. Wentworth)ĭiana Lucile Paxson, born Februin Detroit, Michigan, is a fantasy writer that lives in the literary household called Greyhaven in Berkley, California. Sword and Sorceress XXVI (By:Elisabeth Waters,K.D. Sword and Sorceress XXV (By:Josepha Sherman,Elisabeth Waters) Sword and Sorceress XXIV (By:Josepha Sherman,Elisabeth Waters) Sword and Sorceress XXIII (By:Elisabeth Waters,K.D. Sword and Sorceress XX (By:Elisabeth Waters) Sword and Sorceress XIX (By:Elisabeth Waters) Sword and Sorceress XVIII (By:Elisabeth Waters) Sword and Sorceress XVII (By:Marion Zimmer Bradley) Sword and Sorceress XVI (By:Elisabeth Waters) Sword and Sorceress XV (By:Marion Zimmer Bradley,Elisabeth Waters) Sword and Sorceress XII (By:Elisabeth Waters) Sword and Sorceress XI (By:Marion Zimmer Bradley) Sword and Sorceress XIV (By:Marion Zimmer Bradley,Elisabeth Waters) Sword and Sorceress X (By:Marion Zimmer Bradley) Sword and Sorceress IX (By:Josepha Sherman) Sword and Sorceress VIII (By:Josepha Sherman) Sword and Sorceress VII (By:Marion Zimmer Bradley,Gary Jonas) Sword and Sorceress VI (By:Elisabeth Waters) Sword and Sorceress V (By:Josepha Sherman) Sword and Sorceress IV (By:Josepha Sherman) Sword and Sorceress III (By:Elisabeth Waters)

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