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Robin McKinley is an author of fantasy and adventure stories. Ms McKinley grew up as a "military brat" moving around regularly. She now lives in England with her husband, also a writer, Peter Dickinson. She is apparently fond of whippets (a type of dog) and roses. Other authors she mentions on her website as influences or inspirations are Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Dickens, Hardy, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, H. Rider Haggard and J.R.R. Tolkien.

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  • Robin McKinley is an author of fantasy and adventure stories. Ms McKinley grew up as a "military brat" moving around regularly. She now lives in England with her husband, also a writer, Peter Dickinson. She is apparently fond of whippets (a type of dog) and roses. Other authors she mentions on her website as influences or inspirations are Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Dickens, Hardy, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, H. Rider Haggard and J.R.R. Tolkien.
  • Robin McKinley is an American fantasy author, whose works often have active female heroes. She has written two novels and a number of short stories in the world of Damar. The Blue Sword was a Newbery Honor book and The Hero and The Crown won a Newbery Medal. She has written several novels retelling folk tales, including Robin Hood (The Outlaws of Sherwood), Sleeping Beauty (Spindle's End), Donkeyskin (Deerskin), and two different retellings of Beauty and The Beast written 20 years apart (Beauty and Rose Daughter).
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  • Robin McKinley is an author of fantasy and adventure stories. Ms McKinley grew up as a "military brat" moving around regularly. She now lives in England with her husband, also a writer, Peter Dickinson. She is apparently fond of whippets (a type of dog) and roses. Other authors she mentions on her website as influences or inspirations are Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Dickens, Hardy, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, H. Rider Haggard and J.R.R. Tolkien.
  • Robin McKinley is an American fantasy author, whose works often have active female heroes. She has written two novels and a number of short stories in the world of Damar. The Blue Sword was a Newbery Honor book and The Hero and The Crown won a Newbery Medal. She has written several novels retelling folk tales, including Robin Hood (The Outlaws of Sherwood), Sleeping Beauty (Spindle's End), Donkeyskin (Deerskin), and two different retellings of Beauty and The Beast written 20 years apart (Beauty and Rose Daughter).
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