Tanith Lee, 1947-2015
Tanith Lee's husband, artist John Kaiine, e-mailed me this morning with the news that "Tanith died peacefully in her sleep late Sunday night. I was with her. She had been very ill for a long time and suddenly deteriorated rapidly. She is no longer in pain."
I've already expressed my private condolences to him. Her friends are saying many wonderful things about her, which only make me sorrier I never got to meet her in person, though John did say she always liked working with me. I'm also sorry she didn't live long enough to see the publication of her forthcoming Fantastic Books collection, Dancing Through the Fire. It will be out later this year, and I told several Tanith Lee fans about it just this weekend at Balticon. More news on scheduling when it's locked down.
In 2009, she was named a World Horror Grandmaster. In 2013, she received the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. And this year she received the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award. You can find longer obituaries of her proliferating across the web.
tanith-lee.com
I've already expressed my private condolences to him. Her friends are saying many wonderful things about her, which only make me sorrier I never got to meet her in person, though John did say she always liked working with me. I'm also sorry she didn't live long enough to see the publication of her forthcoming Fantastic Books collection, Dancing Through the Fire. It will be out later this year, and I told several Tanith Lee fans about it just this weekend at Balticon. More news on scheduling when it's locked down.
In 2009, she was named a World Horror Grandmaster. In 2013, she received the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. And this year she received the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award. You can find longer obituaries of her proliferating across the web.
tanith-lee.com