Karen Anderson (writer)

Karen Anderson
Born	June Millichamp Kruse September 16, 1932 Erlanger, Kentucky, US
Occupation	Writer, editor
Nationality	American
Period	1958–present
Genre	Fantasy

Karen Kruse Anderson (/ˈkruːzi/; born September 16, 1932) is the widow and sometime co-author of Poul Anderson and mother-in-law of writer Greg Bear.

Biography

Anderson was born June Millichamp Kruse in Erlanger, Kentucky, near Cincinnati, Ohio.

She is noted as the first person to use the term filk music in print. She also wrote the first published science fiction haiku (or scifaiku), "Six Haiku" (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1962). She also probably coined the term sophont to describe the general class of sapient beings.

As a student of philology she, in 1950, along with three friends, founded a Sherlock Holmes society, naming it the "Red Circle Society." She was, around this time, a friend of Hugh Everett III, whose theories about parallel universes Poul Anderson later became an enthusiast.

Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1982 novel Friday in part to Karen.

In the 1980s she was an active writing collaborator with her husband, co-authoring several books.

Bibliography

Novels

King of Ys

1. Roma Mater (1986) with Poul Anderson
2. Gallicenae (1987) with Poul Anderson
3. Dahut (1987) with Poul Anderson
4. The Dog and the Wolf (1988) with Poul Anderson

The Last Viking

1. The Golden Horn (1980) with Poul Anderson
2. The Road of the Sea Horse (1980) with Poul Anderson
3. The Sign of the Raven (1980) with Poul Anderson

Collections

• The Unicorn Trade (1984) with Poul Anderson

External links

• Bibliography at SciFan
• Karen Anderson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Works by Karen Anderson at Project Gutenberg