Katharine Kerr was born in
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1944. After dropping out of Stanford University in the mid-Sixties to
join several of the revolutions then in progress, Katharine worked at a number of
low-paying jobs, including a stint in the Post Office, while she read extensively in the
fields of classical archaeology and literature, Medieval and Dark Ages history, and modern
fiction.
In 1979 a friend gave Katharine what became known as "the fatal
gift," her first fantasy role-playing game. She became so intrigued with both gaming
and the fantasy field as a whole that she began writing articles for gaming magazines, and
for some time was a contributing editor to DRAGON magazine as well as contributing to
gaming modules for both TSR, Inc, and Chaosium, Inc.
Now, however, she is devoting herself exclusively to fiction, for the
simple reasons that there are only twenty-four hours in a day, and she does require the
normal amount of sleep.
