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Evangeline Walton

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Evangeline Walton

Aliases: Evangeline Wilna Ensley
Pen Names: Evangeline Walton（Pen name for fantasy fiction）

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1907-11-24 （Indianapolis, Indiana）
Died
1996-03-11 （Tucson, Arizona） age 88
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Religion
Quaker
Residence History
Indianapolis, Indiana → Tucson, Arizona

Career

Occupations
Author
Active Years
1936-1996
Influenced By
L. Frank Baum, James Stephens, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, John Cowper Powys
Nominations
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award nominee: The Children of Llyr (1972), Prince of Annwn (1975)

Awards

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
1973
Work: The Song of Rhiannon
Category: 成人向け文学部門
Organization: Mythopoeic Society
Result: 受賞
World Fantasy Award
1989
Category: 生涯業績賞
Organization: World Fantasy Convention
Result: 受賞
Fritz Leiber Fantasy Award
1979
Category: Gray Mouser Award
Organization: Science Fiction/Fantasy's Fantasy Faire
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Island of the Mighty

1970 Fantasy

A retelling of the Welsh Mabinogion.

MythologyHistory

The Children of Llyr

1971 Fantasy

Second volume of the Mabinogion tetralogy.

MythologyFamily

The Song of Rhiannon

1972 Fantasy

Third volume of the Mabinogion tetralogy.

MythologyLove

Prince of Annwn

1974 Fantasy

Fourth volume of the Mabinogion tetralogy.

MythologyOtherworld

Witch House

1945 Horror

Occult horror set in New England.

WitchcraftSupernatural

The Sword Is Forged

1983 Fantasy

First of the Theseus trilogy.

MythologyHeroism

Bibliography

  • The Mabinogion tetralogy
  • Witch House
  • The Cross and the Sword
  • The Sword Is Forged
  • She Walks in Darkness
  • Above Ker-Is and Other Stories

Translations of Works

  • Translated into several European languages

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Humanizes myths with eloquence, humor, and compassion
Recurring Motifs
Myth retellingsFeminism

Health

  • Chronic respiratory illnesses
    幼少期
    Home-schooled or self-taught
  • Argyria
    生涯
    Skin turned blue-gray from silver nitrate treatment
  • Brain tumor
    1991年
    Benign but health declined afterward

Legacy

Known for modern retellings of Welsh myths in fantasy fiction.

Archives

  • Special Collections, University of Arizona Library, Tucson

In Popular Culture

  • Rights to Mabinogion bought by Stevie Nicks for film

Quotes

  • My own method has always been to try to put flesh and blood on the bones of the original myth; I almost never contradict sources, I only add and interpret.
    Source: Fantasy Review interview (1985)

Trivia

  • From a Quaker family
  • Skin turned blue-gray from silver nitrate
  • Long correspondence with John Cowper Powys
  • Pen name Walton from family name on Declaration of Independence