Caroline Stevermer


Caroline Stevermer is an American writer of young adult fantasy novels and shorter works. She is best known for historical fantasy novels.

Personal life

Caroline Stevermer was born in 1955, and grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota along with one sister and two brothers. She wanted to be a writer at age 8 years old. She obtained her B.A. degree in the history of art from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. Her first two books were published under the name C. J. Stevermer. Her first novel written as Caroline Stevermer was The Serpent's Egg. She currently lives in Minnesota.
In 2008, she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.

Works

Series

Nicholas Coffin

These were her first professional sales and were published by Ace under the name C. J. Stevermer. These feature an English alchemist in Rome at the time of the House of Borgia.
With Patricia C. Wrede, she wrote three novels set in an alternate Regency England where magic and non-magic society exist side-by-side and cooperatively. The authors tell these stories from the first-person perspectives of cousins Kate and Cecelia, who recount their adventures in magic and polite society. These works are epistolary novels, written using the style of the letter game.
- The first two books in this series were published in an omnibus edition, Magicians of Quality in 2005.

A College of Magics

Her Galazon series comprise a Ruritanian romance series with magic. Caroline Stevermer attended Bryn Mawr College, and Greenlaw, the College in A College of Magics, may be based on her experiences there. Terri Windling selected College as one of the best fantasy books of 1994, describing it as "charmingly distinctive... the sly wit and sparkling prose that have earned her a cult following".
- The first two books of this series were published as an omnibus edition, Scholarly Magics. This was the Science Fiction Book Club's featured alternate selection for Spring 2004.

Stand alone works

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