Author Biography and Bibliography Suzette Haden Elgin was born in Missouri in 1936. All sorts of things happened, and in the late '60s she found herself widowed, remarried, mother of five, and a graduate student in the Linguistics Department of the University of California San Diego. Since everyone knew in those days that mothers of five hadn't a prayer of making it to the Ph.D., money for school was scarce; even teaching high school at night didn't cover the bills. Suzette therefore began writing science fiction novels to pay her tuition. She did survive grad school, with the distinction of being the only student ever to have to write two dissertations (one on English, one on Navajo) for that purpose; she went on to teach linguistics at San Diego State University and then retired in 1980 to the Arkansas Ozarks, where she can still be found. She has grandchildren (twelve of them) worldwide. Her first novel, The Communipaths, was published as half of an "ACE double" in 1970, starting her Coyote Jones series. (That's "Coyote" with three syllables.) Her second Coyote Jones book, Furthest, was published as an Ace Science Fiction Special in 1971; the third in the series—Star-Anchored, Star-Angered—was published by DAW Books. Next came The Ozark Trilogy—Twelve Fair Kingdoms, The Grand Jubilee, And Then There'll Be Fireworks—in 1981; it was a Science Fiction Book Club Alternate. (Coyote Jones appeared in another book set in the Planet Ozark universe, called Yonder Comes the Other End of Time.) For more information check out her website. Photograph by George Elgin.