Megan Whalen Turner is married to a professor and often relocates when he needs to do research. When they traveled to Greece one summer, she decided to use its landscape as the background of a book, but didn't write The Thief until she was spending a year in California, where the olive trees reminded her of the Greek mainland.
Awards: Mythopoeic (2011), LA Times (2010) see all
Genres: Young Adult Fantasy
Series
Queen's Thief
1. The Thief (1996)
2. The Queen of Attolia (2000)
3. The King of Attolia (2006)
4. A Conspiracy of Kings (2010)
5. Thick as Thieves (2017)
6. Return of the Thief (2020)
Moira's Pen (2022)
1. The Thief (1996)
2. The Queen of Attolia (2000)
3. The King of Attolia (2006)
4. A Conspiracy of Kings (2010)
5. Thick as Thieves (2017)
6. Return of the Thief (2020)
Moira's Pen (2022)
Books containing stories by Megan Whalen Turner
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 17th Annual Collection (2004)
(Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, book 17)
edited by
Ellen Datlow, Gavin J Grant and Kelly Link
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