Katherine Kurtz
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Katherine Irene Kurtz is an American fantasy writer, author of sixteen historical fantasy novels in the Deryni series, as well as occult and urban fantasy. Resident in Ireland for over twenty years, s
Kurtz in 2018
Deryni Rising
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Deryni Rising is a historical fantasy novel by American-born author Katherine Kurtz. It was first published by Ballantine Books as the nineteenth volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in Augus
Katherine Kurtz
…her first novels. She also worked in oceanography and television. Kurtz is best known for the Deryni novels and short stories. Her 1970 debut novel, Deryni Rising, was one of the first fantasy novels written in a mode closer to historical fiction than to mythology or legend, as was common in the then-popular high…
Cover illustration by Bob Pepper for the first edition of Deryni Rising