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| - Phyllis Ann Karr, modern Arthurian author. These dictionaries originally came from Karr’s notes for the game Pendragon she and her publisher were working on, hence the admittedly rather arbitrary geographical identifications and that the book tends not to notice contradictions in its sources, for example that Gareth/Gaheriet has an entirely different origin in Malory and in the Vulgate Merlin. Karr’s original purpose was to create a coherent game world without discrepancies. Sources are mainly Sommer’s edition of the Vulgate Cycle, Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, and in the 2nd edition Chrétien de Troyes, plus a few bits from some other medieval English romances. Odd speculations about why Malory did things when Malory was just following his sources, about Malory’s editor, not recognizing that some knights she lists twice are really just the same knight under a different spelling, and random errors mar this work, in both versions. See Arthurian dictionaries
- Phyllis Ann Karr is a contemporary author who has written Oz fiction along with a large body of other work. She is one of the writers associated with Chris Dulabone's Buckethead Enterprises of Oz. Karr's Oz-related works are:
* The Gardener's Boy of Oz (1988)
* Maybe the Miffin (1993)
* Fwiirp in Oz (1996)
* The Hollyhock Dolls in Oz (2004). The Gardener's Boy of Oz is a sequel to Baum's The Scarecrow of Oz. Maybe the Miffin is the tale of Snif the Iffin (from Thompson's Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz) searching for his mate. Karr's Oz works have been illustrated by Melody Grandy. Beyond the confines of Oz, Karr has written multiple volumes of Arthurian fiction and similarly-themed romance, plus mystery stories, general fiction, and works of scholarship on Oz and other subjects. Her article on Zauberlinda, titled "The Wise Witch and the Wonderful Wizard," appeared in the Spring 2009 issue of The Baum Bugle.
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