Biography
American writer Laurel Hamilton creates at the junction of the genres of Gothic horror, detective fiction and erotica. The author's novels regularly fall into the bestseller lists of New York Times, are issued by millions of circulations and are transferred to dozens of foreign languages. The bibliography of the Americans has dozens of books written both in the composition of cycles and individual volumes.Childhood and youth
Lorel was born in 1963 in the tiny town of Arkansas, but Mom, leaving his father, moved with the girl to Indiana. There they lived in the village of Sims, while the tragic case did not break the life of the mother in 1969. The writer says that the sense of security is early lost, in which most children grow, feeling their own vulnerability and hostility of the world.
Grandfather - Laura and Elbert Gentry were engaged in raising a child. Here, too, everything was not cloudless, as a man allowed himself to raise his hand on his spouse. To Laurel, his grandfather treated with constant warmth, spending a lot of time with her, and the girl answered him the same, while feeling a dissonance caused by a mixture of fear and love.
A special world, in which Hamilton left reality, became books. But here, she subconsciously stretched to the "horror stories", choosing the authors like Robert Howard. An American in 12 years took to write stories, and graduating from school, entered Marion College on the course of a creative letter. Her bold literary experiments often included scenes of violence and frank sex, for which teachers even removed the girl from studying. Here Laurel studied English literature and biology.
After graduating from college, the graduate worked as an editor to Xerox Corporation, and writing in his free time as a hobby. But this did not prevent her to keep healthy ambitions and offer the first manuscript publisher.
Personal life
The first husband Gary Hamilton Girl met, while still a student. She left his surname after the divorce and writes under it. A second attempt to arrange a personal life. A woman took in 2001, coming out married Jonathan Green. An attempt was able to: a couple now happily lives in St. Louis, Missouri, along with the daughter of Trinity.Laurel finds time for charitable projects, while preventing animal abuse. It facilitates the protection of dogs and preserving the population of wolves in the wild. Latest news, fresh facts of biography and photos of book covers The woman accommodates in official accounts "Facebook", "Instagram" and "Twitter".
Books
The debut novel "Vale of the Witch" was published in 1992. And a year later, "forbidden fruit" appeared, which opened the famous cycle dedicated to the necromancer, Blaik and the author who brought worldwide popularity. The secret of success was the mixture of mystery, fantasies, magic, horrors and romance, emanating from book pages.
The first positive response spurned the author to take for the continuation, and she began to create one of the other. In the order of the laughing corpse (1994), then "Cyrk Cursed" (1995) and "Lunatic Cafe" (1996). In total, more than 20 works came out in the series, and the writer is not going to stop. The popularity of the heroine led to the fact that Marvel launched a series of comics about the miniature warrior Anita in 2007.
Hamilton came up with another heroine - the elven princess Meredith Gentri, who devoted the cycle of novels in the genre of erotic fantasy.
Laurel Hamilton now
Lorel now continues to create new books. On the official website, the author has encouraged fans to work on the continuation of the series about Nekromanta Anita Blake. One of the last works of the cycle remains Roman Serpentine, published in August 2018, and the story of Sweet Seduction, published in May 2019. The publications are not yet translated into Russian.Bibliography
- 1992 - "Witch Watch"
- 1993 - "Forbidden Fruit"
- 1995 - "Circled Circle"
- 1997 - "Deadly Dance"
- 2001 - "Narcissus in chains"
- 2004 - "Seduced Moon"
- 2006 - "Mika"
- 2008 - "Sungthm of Mraka"
- 2010 - "bullet"
- 2012 - "Kiss of the Deadman"
- 2015 - "Dead Lode"