While trying to make it as a writer, she worked as a reader of romance manuscripts, reviewed martial arts movies, did freelance editing, and helped found a radio comedy and production company where she met actor and writer Timothy Liebe (who had a role in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, among others), whom she married in 1985.ĭebut YA fantasy novel Alanna: The First Adventure appeared in 1983 and launched the first of a series of related quartets, trilogies, and duologies. She worked briefly as a housemother in an Idaho group home for teenage girls, where she told the residents the story of the female warrior Alanna, before moving to New York in 1979.
The following year she enrolled in a writing course and began to write fiction featuring strong female heroines, mostly because she hadn’t found many books about women she could relate to. Pierce sold her first story, true-confession ‘‘What We Did Was Sin’’, in 1967 while a junior in college.
She studied psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1977 with a degree in liberal arts. The series follows Angela del Toro as she takes her uncle's place among New York's hero community, and takes down an international crime boss.Tamora Pierce was born Decemin southwest Pennsylvania, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and Pennsylvania. Pierce and her husband, Timothy Liebe, co-wrote a six-part mini-series, published together in the trade White Tiger: A Hero's Compulsion. Tortall and Other Lands (2010, a short stories collection) Pierce currently lives with her husband in New York. At the University of Pennsylvania, Pierce wrote the first drafts of the Song of the Lionness quartet, which was to become her first published work. Her family moved several times, first around California, and then back to Pennsylvanie after her parents' divorce. Pierce was born in Pennsylvania, the eldest of three sisters.
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