Adrienne Martine-Barnes (19 January 1942 – 20 July 2015), was an American contemporary, non-fiction and fantasy writer.

Biography

Martine-Barnes was born Adrienne Zinah Martinez in

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in 1942. While in school she wrote two one-act plays which were produced. She attended the

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and

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but did not graduate. In 1964, she married Ronald Hicks, with whom she had one son, Geoffrey. They divorced in 1968. Martine-Barnes moved to

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and became an agent. She was a member of the

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while living there. In 1972, she married Larry Barnes. Barnes later vanished while camping in California was presumed dead by authorities. She did not write her first novel, ''Never Speak of Love'', until 1982. Many of her novels were based in fantasy and mythology. She also wrote with both

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and

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. She was a member of the

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. She died in 2015 in

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and was buried in Kingman, Indiana.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''Never Speak of Love'' (1982)

Chronicles of Fionn mac Cumhal

* ''Master of Earth and Water ''(1993) with Diana L. Paxson * ''The Shield Between the Worlds'' (1994) with Diana L. Paxson * ''Sword of Fire and Shadow'' (1995) with Diana L. Paxson

Chronique D'Avebury

* ''The Fire Sword'' (1984) * ''The Crystal Sword'' (1988) * ''The Rainbow Sword'' (1988) * ''The Sea Sword'' (1989)

Darkover

* ''Exile's Song'' (1996) with Marion Zimmer Bradley * ''The Shadow Matrix'' (1997) with Marion Zimmer Bradley * ''Traitor's Sun'' (1999) with Marion Zimmer Bradley

Dragon Rises

* ''The Dragon Rises'' (1983)

Short fiction

*''Di Catenas'' (1982) *''Wildwood'' (1983) *''War Corsets of the Gore'' (1992) *''The Elements So Mixed'' (1994) *''People and Places'' (1994) with Diana L. Paxson *''Flambeaux'' (1995) *''The Wolf Creek Fragment'' (1995) *''Winter Tales'' (1996) *''The Naming of Names'' (1997)

References and sources

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