Robin Lythgoe

Biography

Robin Lythgoe spent her formative years in a family of seven readers (including herself). She was immersed in books of nearly every variety. Fantasy, with its wonderful worlds and creatures and magic, firmly captured her heart.

She has diverse experience in such things as floral arts, technology, retail book sales, and the surreal craft of being an apartment manager. She's been dragged across the United States several times and volunteered for even more trips on her own terms.

Though she's never trained as a thief or ridden a dragon, she did graduate from a tiny school with a class membership of a prodigious fifty-one students. She even sacrificed part of one delightfully grueling summer to cram in the study of a year's worth of a foreign language, then graduated before the usual time with extra credits.

This need for education—instigated early in life by maternal orders to "go look it up"—has led to several self-taught talents such as writing, research, editing, Photoshop, mapmaking, and website coding. Her yearning to learn also results in lengthy visits at museums and historical sites, where she reads everything in sight, and looks up Even More on her trusty traveling data center. Her husband calls her a 'brown ajah,' which is acceptable only if the brown is dark chocolate (because milk chocolate is a color, not a flavor).

Today she writes tales about wizards and magic, fantastical places and extraordinary journeys. She'd "open a vein and bleed," but she'd get chocolate all over the keyboard.