Karen Anderson (writer)


Karen Anderson was an American writer. She published fiction and essays solo and in collaboration with her husband Poul Anderson and others.

Biography

Anderson was born June Millichamp Kruse in Erlanger, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio.
In the 1980s she co-authored several books in collaboration with her husband, Poul Anderson.
She was the first person to use the term filk music in print; she also wrote the first published science fiction haiku, "Six Haiku".
In 1950 she, 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, of whose theories about parallel universes Poul Anderson later became an enthusiast.
Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1982 novel, Friday, in part to Anderson.
The writer Greg Bear was her son-in-law.

Novels

King of Ys

  1. Roma Mater with Poul Anderson
  2. Gallicenae with Poul Anderson
  3. Dahut with Poul Anderson
  4. The Dog and the Wolf with Poul Anderson

The Last Viking

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

Collections

The Unicorn Trade with Poul Anderson