Brenda Clough

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Brenda Clough
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Born
Brenda Wang

(1955-11-13) November 13, 1955 (age 68)
NationalityAmerican
Other namesB.W. Clough
Education Carnegie Mellon University
Occupation(s) Science fiction and fantasy writer
Notable work May Be Some Time
SpouseLarry Clough
Website brendaclough.net

Brenda W. Clough (also credited as B.W. Clough) (pronounced Cluff) [1] is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. [2] She has been nominated for the Hugo [3] and Nebula Awards in 2002 for her novella May Be Some Time . As of 2014, she taught writing workshops at the Writers Center in Bethesda, Maryland. [4]

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Background and personal life

Born Brenda Wang on November 13, 1955, in Washington, D.C., she is the child of Chinese immigrants. In a 2014 interview, she related that "for the first five years of my life I spoke only Chinese. I am told that I started kindergarten without a word of English. I can remember nothing of this, and now only speak Chinese at, you guessed it, a five-year-old level." [5]

She is a self-described "State Department brat" who spent a large amount of her childhood and teenage years living in Europe and Asia (including Manila and Hong Kong) due to her father's career. [6] According to her website, "as a girl" she attended the American School of Vientiane in Laos. She later attended Carnegie Mellon University.

She lives with her husband, Larry Clough, [7] in Portland, Oregon. [8]

Bibliography

Novels

Averidan series

  • The Crystal Crown, DAW, New York, 1984. ISBN   978-0886772833
  • The Dragon of Mishbil, DAW, New York, 1985. ISBN   978-0981848723
  • The Realm Beneath, DAW, New York, 1986. ISBN   978-0886771379
  • The Name of the Sun, DAW, New York, 1988. ISBN   978-0886772826

Suburban Gods series

  • How Like a God, Tor Books, New York, 1997. ISBN   978-0312862633
  • Doors of Death and Life, Tor Books, New York, 2000. ISBN   978-0312870645
  • Out of the Abyss (as yet unpublished sequel to Doors of Death and Life) [9]

Other novels

Short stories

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Non-fiction

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  3. "2002 Hugo Award Nominees". Archived from the original on 2016-10-24. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
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