![]() ![]() ![]() McKillip then moved to San Francisco, then to the Catskill Mountains in NY,then Roxbury, NY and now lives in Oregon (if I make sense of the author's notes in consecutive books correctly.) She then went on for a MA at the San Jose State University. ![]() She went to the College of Notre Dame, Belmont, and San Jose University where she earned a BA in English. Patricia Anne McKillip was born in Salem, Oregon (USA) on Februa leap year baby! She started writing at 14, and according to the notes in the Riddlemaster trilogy, "she has been writing ever since - except for a brief detour when she thought she would be a concert pianist." The House on Parchment Street has a neat quote about how she started writing - "In a fit of boredom one day when she was fourteen, she sat down in front of a window overlooking a stately medieval church and its graveyard and produced a thirty-page fairy tale." A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001. ![]()
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