Hotel Transylvania by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

In 1997 the Transylvanian Society of Dracula bestowed a literary knighthood on Yarbro, and in 2003 the World Horror Association presented her with a Grand Master award. She is constantly adding to it as part of her on-going fascination with history and culture she reads incessantly, searching for interesting people and places that might provide fodder for stories. She has a large reference library with books on a wide range of subjects, everything from food and fashion to weapons and trade routes to religion and law. By the mid-60s she had switched to writing stories and hasn't stopped yet.Īfter leaving college in 1963 and until she became a full-time writer in 1970, she worked as a demographic cartographer, and still often drafts maps for her books, and occasionally for the books of other writers. Her first professional writing - in 1961-1962 - was as a playwright for a now long-defunct children's theater company. ❖ ~ Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - FFĪ professional writer for more than forty years, Yarbro has sold over eighty books, more than seventy works of short fiction, and more than three dozen essays, introductions, and reviews. Yarbro is one of the first women to have made a successful and long career writing modern supernatural fiction. Her manuscripts are being archived at Bowling Green University. She has been nominated for the Edgar, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards and was the first female president of the Horror Writers Association. In 1995 Yarbro was the only novelist guest of the Romanian government for the First World Dracula Congress, sponsored by the Transylvanian Society of Dracula, the Romanian Bureau of Tourism and the Romanian Ministry of Culture. She is the recipient of the Fine Foundation Award for Literary Achievement (1993) and (along with Fred Saberhagen) was awarded the Knightly Order of the Brasov Citadel by the Transylvanian Society of Dracula in 1997. 'And Bob's Your Uncle' in Full Moon City (2010)Ĭhelsea Quinn Yarbro is one of only two women ever to be named as Grand Master of the World Horror Convention (2003).

To expand the table, right-press on a row of the table or (Control-press on a Mac)-choose add row. Yarbro lives in her hometown of Berkeley, California.

Her work ahs been translated into more than twenty languages and she has received the Fine Foundation Award for versatility and literary excellence.

In addition to her novels and full-length nonfiction works, she has published more than sixty short stories and more than two dozen essays. The author of the immensely popular Count Saint-Germain series, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has established a distinguished reputation in several genres, including horror, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, young adult and western, as well as nonfiction. The fore-runner to contemporary Urban Fantsasy and Vampire Fiction. Trademark Style Briefly About the Author

Hotel Transylvania by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro