Heinlein Award in 2007 for outstanding work in science fiction field. For her novel The Speed of Dark, she got Nebula Award for best novel in 2003. And even though she wrote (at first) adventure stories and poetry about her surroundings, science fiction and fantasy genre brought her many awards. The professions she took into account were: a painter, a composer, an astronomer, a physicist after all. The couple adopted a son in 1983.Įlizabeth claims that her dream was not always to be only a writer.
That was the beginning of her professional writing career. In 1979 Moons moved to a small town in Texas, and about two years later Elizabeth started writing for a weekly magazine Florence News.
Nevertheless, her admiration for science and nature never stopped, and she later earned another Bachelor’s Degree. In 1969, she married Richard Sloan Moon – her classmate from Rice University. Even when she was little girl, her mother often took her outside on the beach, to ride horses and have fun. In love with nature since she was just a child, Elizabeth Moon took the opportunity to explore trees, birds, ecosystems, when she had the time. Most of her books include precisely military themes, because of her experience with the Marines. She signed up with the Marines, and was assigned to work with computers. After college, Moon had made one unusual decision: she attended military service. Of course, during her studies, she wrote poetry and science fiction novels. Therefore, Elizabeth earned her Bachelor’s degree in history, in 1968. At the beginning, she wanted to be physics major, but later discovered that history is maybe a better solution, since her interest in science in high school was not enough for the university level. So, she went to Houston to attend Rice University. Elizabeth new very well that earning for living must be her priority, but still, she chose to deny jobs that were reserved for girls back then: secretaries, teachers, nurses etc. However, her parents divorced before she was born, and she lived with her mother. She would also scribble some poetry while in school, or stories on pieces of paper. As a little child, she loved storytelling and reading, and the first stories she wrote were mostly about the subjects that could interest a child’s soul for example, she tried to write a whole book about her dog when she was six. In a small city of McAllen, she started to write very early, at the age of six. She was born in 1945 (March the Seventh), South Texas, and grew up there, near the Mexican border. Elizabeth Moon is science fiction and fantasy writer.
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