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Marion Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Mrs. Bradley received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67.
She was a science fiction/fantasy fan from her middle teens, and made her first sale as an adjunct to an amateur fiction contest in Fantastic/Amazing Stories in 1949. She had written as long as she could remember, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to Vortex Science Fiction. She wrote everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels.
In addition to her novels, Mrs. Bradley edited many magazines, amateur and professional, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, which she started in 1988. She also edited an annual anthology called Sword and Sorceress for DAW Books.
Over the years she turned more to fantasy; The House Between the Worlds, although a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club, was "fantasy undiluted". She wrote a novel of the women in the Arthurian legends -- Morgan Le Fay, the Lady of the Lake, and others - entitled Mists of Avalon, which made the NY Times best seller list both in hardcover and trade paperback, and she also wrote The Firebrand, a novel about the women of the Trojan War. Her historical fantasy novels, The Forest House, Lady of Avalon, Mists of Avalon are prequels to Priestess of Avalon.
She died in Berkeley, California on September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack. She was survived by her brother, Leslie Zimmer; her sons, David Bradley and Patrick Breen; her daughter, Moira Stern; and her grandchildren.
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The Forests of Avalon was originally called The Forest House and this is the home to Druidic priestesses. This is the story of Eilan she being the daughter of a Druidic Warrior and is destined to serve the Goddess in the priestesses house as a healer. However one day an injured Briton is discovered and Eilan tends to him to heal him, not only that she ends up falling in love with him and they want to marry. But, it is frowned upon because he is half-Roman and half-Briton and broken hearted Eilan reverts to her original wish to serve the Goddess.
This novel, as Mists of Avalon is very much from the female perspective especially when concerning menstrual blood rites and spellcasting.
The characters in this book are so likeable and though this is said to be much inferior to Mists of Avalon I really loved this book. You don't have to read this to read Mists but, I would recommend it, so well written.
i was trying to find the order these books were suppose to be read but could not find it,so i read priestess first and then found out i should have read forests of avalon(ive got the american version - forest house) i am upto chapter 6 and it might be me but i know this follows the story of helena's mother before she was born i presume. But i dont know i want to read it but find it very slow going and not as interesting as priestess. I put it away to read something else but then find i pick it up and read a bit more,but it still seems to drag on. does it get any better or is this book not as good as the others?
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