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Leonard Paul Carpenter (born February 6, 1948) is an American writer of
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and
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. He writes as Leonard Carpenter and Leonard P. Carpenter.


Life

Carpenter was born in 1948 in
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, but aside from a year in
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in childhood has lived most of his life in
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.Author profile on Amazon.com
He married Cheryl Lynn Chrisman on October 10, 1970, in
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. They attended
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, from which they both graduated, and had two daughters and a son. The Carpenters lived in
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from 1975 to 2003, and continued to reside on the
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thereafter. Cheryl, a schoolteacher, retired in 2013 and died January 24, 2014, after a year-long fight with cancer."Cheryl Lynn Chrisman Carpenter, 1947-2014." Obituary in the ''Santa Maria Times'', Santa Maria, California, January 28, 2014. Since her death Carpenter has traveled and worked on book projects.


Works

Among Carpenter's works are eleven Conan novels published by
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. He has also written the science fiction novel ''Fatal Strain'', later re-titled ''Biohacker'', the historical fiction novel ''Lusitania Lost'', and a number of short stories, articles and poems. Carpenter's writing has been published in the magazines ''
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'', ''
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'', ''Eldrich Tales'', and ''2AM'', as well as the anthologies ''Dark Lessons'' (1985), '' L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume I'' (1985), '' The Year's Best Horror Stories XIV'' (1986), ''Horrorstory Volume 5'' (1989), '' The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVII'' (1989), ''Short Sharp Shocks'' (1990), ''The Cthulhu Cycle'' (1996), ''Serve It Forth — Cooking With Anne McCaffrey'' (1996), '' L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XV'' (1999), and '' L. Ron Hubbard Presents the Best of Writers of the Future'' (2000).


Awards

Carpenter has been the recipient of the
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award and the Origins Award for Best Game Related Fiction.


Bibliography


Conan novels

*'' Conan the Renegade'' (1986) *'' Conan the Raider'' (1986) *'' Conan the Warlord'' (1988) *'' Conan the Hero'' (1989) *'' Conan the Great'' (1989) *'' Conan the Outcast'' (1991) *'' Conan the Savage'' (1992) *'' Conan of the Red Brotherhood'' (1993) *'' Conan, Scourge of the Bloody Coast'' (1994) *'' Conan the Gladiator'' (1995) *'' Conan, Lord of the Black River'' (1996)


Other

*''Fatal Strain'' (2003 - electronic publication only) *
Biohacker
' (2020) (Re-issue of ''Fatal Strain'') *
Lusitania Lost
' (2017) *''The Chronicles of Creighton Craven'' (unpublished)


Short stories

*"Dead Week" (1984) *"The Ebbing" (1985) *"Endangered Species" (1985) *"Fearing's Fall" (1987) *"Recrudescence" (1988) *"The Eighth Plague" (1989) *"The Hagen Project" (1990) *"Torso" (1991)


Poetry

*"The Devourer" (1987) *"The Egg" (1987) *"The Fungoid Intruder" (1987) *"The Priests" (1987) *"The Combatants" (1988) *"The Catcher" (1989) *"The Hoard" (1989) *"The Miser" (1989)


Nonfiction

*"Rondrini's Linguini and Clam Sauce" (1996)


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carpenter, Leonard 1948 births Living people American fantasy writers 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American writers American male novelists Conan the Barbarian novelists 20th-century American male writers