Peter S. Beagle
Peter Soyer Beagle (born 1939) is an American fantasist and author of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays. He is also a talented guitarist and folk singer. He wrote his first novel, urban fantasy A Fine and Private Place (1960), when he was only 19 years old. Travel book I See By My Outfit (1965) is a nonfiction classic. Today he is best known as the author of The Last Unicorn (1968), a modern fantasy classic.
Beagle's work as a screenwriter interrupted his early career direction as a fiction author, but in the 1990s he returned to prose fiction. Beagle's own favourite is a literary fantasy novel The Innkeeper's Song (1993). Four years later Beagle returned to the land that was the novels setting for a collection of short stories The Magician of Karakosk and Other Stories (1997, known as Giant Bones).
In 2005 Beagle finally published a coda to The Last Unicorn, a novelette entitled ”Two Hearts,” and began work on a full-novel sequel. In 2006, ”Two Hearts” won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette and in 2007 it won the Nebula Award in the same category. The story was also nominated as a short fiction finalist for the World Fantasy Award. In 2006, Beagle won the Inkpot Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Peter S. Beagle lives today in Oakland, California.
Speculative Fiction Novels (19)
The Overneath 2017 | fantasy, short stories |
In Calabria 2017 | fantasy, magical realism |
Summerlong 2016 | fantasy |
Sleight of Hand 2011 | fantasy, short stories |
Return 2010 | fantasy |
Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle 2010 | fantasy, short stories |
We Never Talk About My Brother 2009 | fantasy, short stories |
The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version 2007 | fantasy |
The Line Between 2006 | fantasy, short stories |
A Dance for Emilia 2000 | fantasy |
Tamsin 1999 | fantasy |
The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances 1997 | fantasy, non-fiction, short stories |
Giant Bones 1997 | fantasy, short stories |
The Unicorn Sonata 1996 | fantasy |
The Innkeeper's Song 1993 | fantasy |
The Folk of the Air 1986 | fantasy |
Lila the Werewolf 1974 | fantasy |
The Last Unicorn 1968 | fantasy |
A Fine and Private Place 1960 | fantasy, magical realism |
Comics and Anthology (2)
The Unicorn Anthology 2019 | fantasy, anthology |
The New Voices of Fantasy 2017 | fantasy, anthology |
Others non-spefi books (1)
Your Friendly Neighborhood Magician: Songs and Early Poems 2006 | mainstream |