Despite a persistent rumour, she was not the daughter of the actor Bernard Lee who played 'M' in the James Bond series of films of the 1960s. Lee was the daughter of two ballroom dancers, Bernard and Hylda Lee. In 2009 she was awarded the prestigious title of Grand Master of Horror. Lee twice won the World Fantasy Award: once in 1983 for best short fiction for “The Gorgon” and again in 1984 for best short fiction for “Elle Est Trois (La Mort).” She has been a Guest of Honour at numerous science fiction and fantasy conventions including the Boskone XVIII in Boston, USA in 1981, the 1984 World Fantasy Convention in Ottawa, Canada, and Orbital 2008 the British National Science Fiction convention (Eastercon) held in London, England in March 2008. Her career took off in 1975 with the acceptance by Daw Books USA of her adult fantasy epic The Birthgrave for publication as a mass-market paperback, and Lee has since maintained a prolific output in popular genre writing. Her first short story, 'Eustace,' was published in 1968, and her first novel (for children) The Dragon Hoard was published in 1971.

She also wrote four radio plays broadcast by the BBC and two scripts for the UK, science fiction, cult television series 'Blake's 7.'īefore becoming a full time writer, Lee worked as a file clerk, an assistant librarian, a shop assistant, and a waitress. She was the author of 77 novels, 14 collections, and almost 300 short stories. Tanith Lee was a British writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. Once upon a time there was a mirror, and a girl as white as snow. Come inside, sit by the fire, and listen to this fairy tale as you've never heard it told before.

Seven little folk who live in the forest. The tragic myth of the goddess Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, stolen by the king of the underworld, is woven together with the tale of Snow White to create a powerful story of mothers and daughters and the blood that binds them together, for good or ill.

until the mirror speaks, and blood is spilled, and the forest claims her. Avoided by both her parents and half forgotten by her father's court, she grows into womanhood alone. Coira is the princess raised in the shadow of her mother's hatred. Cold as winter, she has only one passion-for the mysterious hunter who courts the outlawed old gods of the woodland. So begins this dark, unusual retelling of the story of Snow White by the writer reviewers have called the Angela Carter of the fantasy field-a whole novel based on a beloved story, turning it into a dark and sensual drama full of myth and magic.Īrpazia is the aging queen who paces the halls of a warlord's palace.

White as snow by tanith lee