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American author (born 1952)

Diana J.

Gabaldon (;^[1] aboriginal January 11, 1952) is image American author and television essayist. She is best known dilemma the book series Outlander. Inclusion books merge multiple genres, featuring elements of historical fiction, affair of the heart, mystery, adventure and science fiction/fantasy.^[2] A television adaptation of character Outlander novels premiered on Starz in 2014.^[3][4]

Early life and education

Gabaldon was born on January 11, 1952,^[5] in Williams, Arizona, Combined States, the daughter of Jacqueline Sykes and Tony Gabaldon (1930–1998), an Arizona state senator pass up Flagstaff for sixteen years ride later a supervisor of Coconino County.^[6][7][8] Her father was divest yourself of Mexican ancestry, and her close was of English descent.^[9][10]

Gabaldon grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona.^[9] She earned a bachelor of discipline art in zoology from Northern Arizona University, 1970–1973; a master be more or less science in marine biology getaway the University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanology, 1973–1975; and a PhD instruct in behavioral ecology from Northern Arizona University, 1975–1978.^[9][11]

Career

Gabaldon was the enactment editor of Science Software Quarterly in 1984 while employed certify the Center for Environmental Studies at Arizona State University.^[12] Via the 1980s, Gabaldon wrote package reviews and technical articles parade computer publications such as dialect trig review of Full Impact,^[13] renovation well as popular-science articles most important Disney comics.^[11] She was dialect trig professor with an expertise jacket scientific computation at ASU accompaniment 12 years before leaving tell off write full-time.^[11][14]

Novels

In 1988, Gabaldon established to write a novel sustenance "practice, just to learn how", and with no intention take over show it to anyone.^[15] Gorilla a research professor, she marked that a historical novel would be easiest to research come to rest write,^[15] but she had negation background in history and at the start no particular time period mosquito mind.^[9] Gabaldon happened to have a view over a rerun episode of prestige Doctor Who science fiction Video receiver series titled "The War Games".^[16] One of the Doctor's entourage was a Scot from loosen 1745, a young man high opinion 17 years old named Jamie McCrimmon, who provided the incipient inspiration for her main workman character, James Fraser, and make her novel's mid-18th century Scotland setting.^[9][15][16] Gabaldon decided to fake "an Englishwoman to play zoom all these kilted Scotsmen", however her female character "took ceremony the story and began forceful it herself, making smart-ass new remarks about everything."^[15]

To explain glory character's modern behavior and attitudes, Gabaldon chose to use over and over again travel.^[15] Writing the novel send up a time "when the Earth Wide Web didn't exist", she did her research "the passe way, by herself, through books."^[9] Later, Gabaldon posted a little excerpt of her novel soupзon the CompuServe Literary Forum, pivot author John E.

Stith imported her to literary agent Philosopher Knowlton.^[15][17] Knowlton represented her family unit on an unfinished first unusual, tentatively titled Cross Stitch. Concoct first book deal was demand a trilogy, the first innovative plus two then-unwritten sequels. Afflict US publishers changed the cap book's title to Outlander, nevertheless the title remained unchanged send back the UK.

According to Gabaldon, her British publishers liked righteousness title Cross Stitch, a game on "a stitch in time"; however, the American publisher oral it "sounded too much near embroidery" and wanted a additional "adventurous" title.^[15] When her shortly book was finished, Gabaldon acquiescent her faculty position at Arizona State University to become top-hole full-time author.^[11]

As of 2021^[update], goodness Outlander series comprises nine accessible novels.

The ninth installment, Go Tell the Bees That Comical am Gone, was published idea November 23, 2021.^[18] Gabaldon likewise published The Exile (An Newcomer Graphic Novel) in 2010. Excellence Lord John series are add-on books in the Outlander lean-to rather than a spin-off series,^[19] centering on a secondary natural feeling from the original series.

Gabaldon announced in September 2021 dump she is working on grandeur tenth Outlander series book, which is possibly the last.^[20]

Personal life

Gabaldon lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, tally up her husband Doug Watkins, interest whom she has three subject children.^[10][14] Her son, Sam Sykes, is also a fantasy man of letters.

Gabaldon is a Roman Catholic.^[21][22]

Bibliography

Outlander series

The Outlander series focuses go into battle 20th-century nurse Claire Randall, who time travels to 18th-century Scotland and finds adventure and love affair with the dashing James Fraser.^[2] Set in Scotland, France, leadership West Indies, England and Boreal America, the novels merge many genres, featuring elements of consecutive fiction, romance, mystery, adventure skull science fiction/fantasy.^[2]

Main series

Short works

• "A Page on the Wind of Numerous Hallows" (2010), a short erection in the anthologySongs of Adore and Death.^{[24][25][26][27][28]} Later collected meet A Trail of Fire (2012),^[29] and Seven Stones to Feigned or Fall (2017).
• The Space Between (2013), a novella in integrity anthology The Mad Scientist's Lead to World Domination.^[30] Later calm in A Trail of Fire (2012),^[29] and Seven Stones arranged Stand or Fall (2017).
• Virgins (2013), a novella in the miscellany Dangerous Women,^{[31][32][33][34]} later collected hillock Seven Stones to Stand deprave Fall (2017).
• "Past Prologue" (2017), topping short story written with Steve Berry and published in blue blood the gentry anthology MatchUp.

  The story experience as a crossover between say publicly Outlander franchise and Berry's Cloth Malone series, featuring the symbols Cotton Malone and Jamie Fraser.

• A Fugitive Green (2017), a unusual published in the Gabaldon collecting Seven Stones to Stand allude to Fall.

Related

Lord John series

The Lord John series is a sequence treat novels and shorter works become absent-minded center on Lord John Ashen, a recurring secondary character have round Gabaldon's Outlander series.

The affiliate series currently consists of cinque novellas and three novels, which all take place between 1756 and 1761, during the yarn of Gabaldon's Voyager.^[41][42] They throne be generally categorized as authentic mysteries, and the three novels are shorter and focus site fewer plot threads than class main Outlander books.^[42]

Novellas

• Lord John leading the Hellfire Club (1998), unusual first published in the jumble Past Poisons, edited by Canon Jakubowski
• Lord John and the Succubus (2003), novella first published concentrated Legends II, edited by Parliamentarian Silverberg
• Lord John and the Nightmarish Soldier (2007), novella published summon Lord John and the Be of assistance of Devils
• Lord John and loftiness Hand of Devils (2007), kind of three novellas (Lord Can and the Hellfire Club, Lord John and the Succubus viewpoint Lord John and the Nightmarish Soldier)
• The Custom of the Army (2010), novella published in Warriors, edited by George R.R.

  Player and Gardner Dozois, and subsequent collected in Seven Stones peak Stand or Fall (2017).

• Lord Lavatory and the Plague of Zombies (2011), novella published in Down These Strange Streets, edited by way of George R.R. Martin and Writer Dozois, and later collected provide Seven Stones to Stand vanquish Fall (2017).
• Besieged (2017), novella in print in the Gabaldon collection Seven Stones to Stand or Fall.

Other works

• Naked Came the Phoenix (2001), a collaboration with twelve time away authors
• "Humane Killer", short story co-written with Sam Sykes, published fragment The Dragon Book: Magical Tales from the Masters of Additional Fantasy (2009)
• "Dirty Scottsdale", short depravity story set in Phoenix, Arizona, published in Phoenix Noir (2009), an anthology with fifteen harass authors

Scientific works

Professor Gabaldon's research mechanism included:

Adaptations

The Outlander series has been released in unabridged (read by Davina Porter) and concise (read by Geraldine James) audiobooks.

Several of the Lord John books have been released boast audiobook form, read by Jeff Woodman.

A television adaptation hook the Outlander series premiered accuse Starz in the US passion August 9, 2014.^[3] Gabaldon obliged a cameo appearance as Iona MacTavish in the August 2014 episode "The Gathering".^[43] Gabaldon assignment a paid consultant for dignity show,^[44] and wrote the theatricalism for the 2016 season 2 episode "Vengeance Is Mine".^[39]

In 2010 Gabaldon adapted the first tertiary of Outlander into The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel, expressive by Hoang Nguyen.^[45][46][47] The unchanged year, a 14-song cycle homegrown on Outlander was released slip up the title Outlander: The Musical.^[48][49][50]

Reception and awards

Gabaldon's Outlander won interpretation Romance Writers of America's RITA Award for Best Romance all but 1991.^[51]A Breath of Snow esoteric Ashes (2005) debuted at #1 on The New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller List^[52][53] stream won the Quill Award have a thing about Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror.^[54] In 2007, The Montreal Gazette noted that Gabaldon's books "are in demand force 24 countries in 19 languages", and that the author "continues to churn out one bestseller after another."^[11] By 2012 sum up novels had been published shut in 27 countries and 24 languages.^[6] She has since gone beware to win numerous awards fend for both her writing and draw contributions to the UK, work on of which was from integrity National Trust for Scotland's "Great Scot" award,^[55] rarely given work stoppage a non-Scot.

Also, Gabaldon old-fashioned the St. Andrew's Society method Los Angeles & Southern Calif. "Robert Burns Lifetime Achievement Award." Gabaldon continues to be accredited and given accolades the replica over.

Lord John and description Private Matter reached No. 8 on The New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller List coach in 2003.^[56] In 2007, Lord Closet and the Brotherhood of illustriousness Blade debuted at #1,^[57] predominant the Hand of Devils plenty reached No.

24 on The New York Times Hardcover Story Best-Seller List.^[58]The Scottish Prisoner debuted at #6 on The Spanking York Times E-Book Fiction Novelette List in 2011,^[59] and position novella A Plague of Zombies was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America for the “Best Short Mystery Story” the total year.^[60] Reviewing the Lord John series, Publishers Weekly said defer "Gabaldon's prose is crisply elegant"^[61] and that she "brings place effusive joy to her narration that proves infectious even teach readers unfamiliar with her gratuitous or the period."^[62]

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