![]() ![]() Tepper was proof that it’s never too late to begin and it’s never too late to become a giant in the field. In 2015 she received a World Fantasy life achievement award. Over the years, they were shortlisted for a number of awards, including the Hugo, the Tiptree, the Locus, the Edgar, the Clarke, and the Campbell Memorial Awards. (Not to mention a number of pamphlets written for Planned Parenthood, including ‘So You Don’t Want to be a Sex Object’ and ‘So Your Happily Ever After Isn’t.’) Her works in mystery, horror, science fiction, and fantasy explored ecology, feminism, religion, family, and politics. She went on to publish more than thirty books, including novels, short story collections, children’s stories, and poetry. Tepper was also one of my favorite examples of ‘you don’t have to be published at twenty-five to be a success.’ Her first novel was published when she was 54. She was with Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood for over twenty years, eventually taking up the Executive Director position before leaving to write full time. Tepper (19292016) is the award-winning author of A Plague of Angels, Sideshow, Beauty, Raising the Stones, Grass, The Gate to Women's Country, After Long Silence, and Shadow's End. As a young single mother she worked for international relief agency CARE. I’ve always admired Tepper’s work, but she was just as admirable a person as she was a writer. Losing a great writer is always difficult, but it’s even more heartbreaking when they’re an underappreciated master of their genre. Tepper passed away on October 22 at the age of 87. Locus Magazine recently shared that Sheri S. ![]()
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