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Stephen R. Lawhead

Born

in Kearney, Nebraska, The United States

July 02, 1950

Website

http://www.stephenlawhead.com

Genre

Fantasy, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Stephen R. Lawhead is an internationally acclaimed author of mythic history and imaginative fiction. His works include Byzantium, Patrick, and the series The Pendragon Cycle, The Celtic Crusades, and The Song of Albion.

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Stephen was born in 1950, in Nebraska in the USA. Most of his early life was spent in America where he earned a university degree in Fine Arts and attended theological college for two years. His first professional writing was done at Campus Life magazine in Chicago, where he was an editor and staff writer. During his five years at Campus Life he wrote hundreds of articles and several non-fiction books.

After a brief foray into the music business—as preside Stephen R. Lawhead is an internationally acclaimed author of mythic history and imaginative fiction. His works include Byzantium, Patrick, and the series The Pendragon Cycle, The Celtic Crusades, and The Song of Albion.

Also see his fanpage at Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/stephenlawhead...

Stephen was born in 1950, in Nebraska in the USA. Most of his early life was spent in America where he earned a university degree in Fine Arts and attended theological college for two years. His first professional writing was done at Campus Life magazine in Chicago, where he was an editor and staff writer. During his five years at Campus Life he wrote hundreds of articles and several non-fiction books.

After a brief foray into the music business—as president of his own record company—he began full-time freelance writing in 1981. He moved to England in order to research Celtic legend and history. His first novel, In the Hall of the Dragon King, became the first in a series of three books (The Dragon King Trilogy) and was followed by the two-volume Empyrion saga, Dream Thief and then the Pendragon Cycle, now in five volumes: Taliesin, Merlin, Arthur, Pendragon, and Grail. This was followed by the award-winning Song of Albion series which consists of The Paradise War, The Silver Hand, and The Endless Knot.

He has written nine children's books, many of them originally offered to his two sons, Drake and Ross. He is married to Alice Slaikeu Lawhead, also a writer, with whom he has collaborated on some books and articles. They make their home in Oxford, England.

Stephen's non-fiction, fiction and children's titles have been published in twenty-one foreign languages. All of his novels have remained continuously in print in the United States and Britain since they were first published. He has won numereous industry awards for his novels and children's books, and in 2003 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by the University of Nebraska.

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Average rating: 4.01 · 166,779 ratings · 9,682 reviews · 105 distinct works • Similar authors

	Taliesin (The Pendragon Cycle #1) 4.02 avg rating — 18,954 ratings — published 1987 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hood (King Raven, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 16,043 ratings — published 2006 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Merlin (The Pendragon Cycle, #2) 4.11 avg rating — 11,453 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Paradise War (The Song of Albion, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 10,768 ratings — published 1991 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arthur 4.02 avg rating — 10,277 ratings — published 1989	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scarlet (King Raven, #2) 4.03 avg rating — 9,998 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tuck (King Raven, #3) 4.12 avg rating — 8,047 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silver Hand (The Song of Albion, #2) 4.25 avg rating — 7,581 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Endless Knot (The Song of Albion, #3) 4.18 avg rating — 6,764 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pendragon (The Pendragon Cycle, #4) 3.97 avg rating — 6,778 ratings — published 1994 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Stephen R. Lawhead

The Pendragon Cycle (5 books)
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King Raven (3 books)
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4.15 avg rating — 25,657 ratings

Bright Empires (5 books)
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Quotes by Stephen R. Lawhead (?)

“To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, Arthur

tags: god, good-and-evil, morals, power-of-words

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“...tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a crown for your head; I will speak the flowers of the field into a cloak; I will speak the racing stream into a melody for your ears and the voices of a thousand larks to sing it; I will speak the softness of night for your bed and the warmth of summer for your coverlet; I will speak the brightness of flame to light your way and the luster of gold to shine in your smile; I will speak until the hardness in you melts away and your heart is free...”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, Taliesin

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“If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just. ”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, Hood

tags: advice, hood, justice, teaching

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Polls

Aug. 15-Oct. 15 Group HF Series

Welsh Princes Series: Here be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman- 3 books

6 votes, 20.7%

Boudica Series: Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott- 4 books

6 votes, 20.7%

King Raven Series: Hood by Stephen R. Lawhead- 3 books

3 votes, 10.3%

William Marshall Series: The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick- 5 books

3 votes, 10.3%

The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy- 3 books

2 votes, 6.9%

Guinevere Trilogy: Guinevere by Sharan Newman- 3 books

2 votes, 6.9%

The Josephine Bonaparte Collection: The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland- 3 books

2 votes, 6.9%

Warlord Chronicles Series: The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell- 3 books

1 vote, 3.4%

Temeraire Series: His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik- 8 books

1 vote, 3.4%

The D'Artagnan Romances: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas- 7 books

1 vote, 3.4%

Asian Saga: King Rat by James Clavell- 7 books

1 vote, 3.4%

Brethren Series: Brethren: An Epic Adventure of the Knights Templar by Robyn Young- 3 books

1 vote, 3.4%

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