Kage Baker

AmericanHistorical FictionFantasyScience Fictionb. 1952 — d. 2010

Kage Baker was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, best known for her "Company" series of historical time travel science fiction. Before becoming a writer, she spent many years in theater, including teaching Elizabethan English as a second language. She also had Asperger syndrome. Her first stories were published in 1997, and her first novel, "In the Garden of Iden," was released the same year. Baker's work was nominated for Hugo and World Fantasy awards, and she won a Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Award. She died in 2010 from uterine cancer.

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Awards

['Theodore Sturgeon Award', 'Nebula Award']

Notable Works

['In the Garden of Iden', 'Sky Coyote', 'Mendoza in Hollywood', 'The Graveyard Game', 'The Life of the World to Come', 'The Children of the Company', "The Machine's Child", 'The Sons of Heaven', 'The Anvil of the World', 'The House of the Stag', 'The Bird of the River', 'The Empress of Mars', "The Women of Nell Gwynne's"]