Obituary from sf newsletter for author Roberta Gellis, most prolific
in romance and mystery fields:
http://file770.com/?p=29984
Roberta Gellis (1927-2016), an author of fantasy fiction and sf/f
novels as well as a prolific romance writer, died May 6.
She wrote her two earliest sf novels, The Space Guardian (1978) and
Offworld (1979) under the name Max Daniels. Later, under her own name,
she co-authored several fantasy novels with Mercedes Lackey.
The family obituary supplies more details about her achievements.
She worked both as a freelance scientific copy editor and as a
research chemist for Foster D. Snell for many years, where she and her
inventing partner developed aerosolized shaving foam and pink hair
dye, among other creations, before she entered a second career as a
best-selling author. Starting with Knight’s Honor in 1964, Roberta was
the author of nearly fifty novels. These included more than twenty
historical romances, including the Roselynde Chronicles and the
Heiress Series, a number of medieval murder mysteries, and several
historical fantasies. Other novels ranged from space opera to gothic
romance to a mystery featuring the much-maligned Lucrezia Borgia as an
amateur detective. She mostly wrote under her own name, but
occasionally wrote as Max Daniels, Leah Jacobs, and Priscilla
Hamilton. She won numerous awards for her writing, including a 1983
award from Romantic Times for Best Historical Series and a 1996
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Romance Writers of America.
Already well advanced in her writing career, Gellis’ first genre short
fiction sale was to Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine and
appeared in 1994. Her last sf/f story, the novelette “Renaissance
Faire” (2005), was published in a collection co-edited by Andre Norton
and Jean Rabe.
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