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Some information about Peter Beagle

Peter S. Beagle

Peter Beagle was born in New York in 1939 and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1959. He has been a professional writer all of his adult life. He has written often as a screenwriter for both films and television. His credits include "Dove" and "Lord of the Rings" as well as the television movie, "The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened," and an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation."

His first two novels, The Last Unicorn and A Fine and Private Place, have remained in print since publication. Both have been hailed as classics. The Last Unicorn was made into a successful animated film in 1982 and the stage adaptation was produced at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle in 1988. A Fine and Private Place is currently being adapted into both a film and a musical play. His works have been translated into 15 languages.

In addition to Peter Beagle's work as a novelist, he has produced nonfiction, and had short fiction, articles, and forewords printed in a variety of publications dating back to the mid 1950's. His non-fiction credits are acclaimed through: In the Presence of Elephants, The Lady and Her Tiger, The Garden of Earthly Delights, and The California Feeling; as are his short fiction articles such as Come, Lady Death, Atlantic; My Daughter's Name is Sarah, Ladies Home Journal; and The Naga, After the King. Furthermore, forewords printed in The Tolkien Reader, by J.R.R. Tolkien; The Adventures of Yemima, by Abraham Soyer; and Adventures in Unhistory, by Avram Davidson; and srticles such as D.H. Lawrence in Taos, Holiday and On Being the Man of the House, Saturday Evening Post, make up just a smattering of his prolific and accomplished writing history.

Beagle is also a musician, singer and songwriter. A live album of songs was issued in 1991 and between 1973 and 1985 he performed weekly at the club L'Oustalou in Santa Cruz, California. He is a regular on the university circuit where he gives readings, lectures, and concerts.

He recently co-edited (with Janet Berliner) an anthology of original stories entitled Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn, and has written the text for In the Presence of Elephants, a book of photographs by Gennaro Molina. A collection of six novellas is scheduled for release in 1997 and he is presently at work on a novel.

 

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