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Background
Maragret was born in California in 1952, but was raised in Alaska. After graduating high school she studied at Denver University for a year and then returned to Alaska. After marrying at eighteen she subsequently moved to Kodiak, an island off the coast of Alaska. It was at this time that she sold her first short story, and began a career writing for children's magazines. Bones for Dulath in AMAZONS! was the first piece of fantasy that she published as Megan Lindholm. The anthology was published by Daw, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, and won a World Fantasy Award for Year's Best Anthology. Over the next decade she moved around America, before settling in Washington and began writing fantasy and science fiction. She has three grown children and a young daughter

The Farseer Trilogy
The Farseer Trilogy follows the life of FitzChivalry Farseer (Fitz), a royal bastard and trained assassin, in a kingdom called The Six Duchieswhile his uncle, Prince Verity, attempts to wage war on the Red-Ship Raiders from The OutIslands who are attacking the shores of the kingdom by turning the populace (primarily the coastal people) into Forged ones; a form of zombification which makes them mindless.
 * Assassin's Apprentice (1995)
 * Royal Assassin (1996)
 * Assassin's Quest (1997)

Liveship Traders Trilogy
The Liveship Traders Trilogy mainly takes place southwest of The Six Duchiesin Bingtown (a colony of Jamaillia) and focuses on Liveships (sentient ships). The trilogy is unusually nautical – an area seldom covered in fantasy – with the germ of it being apparently the idea of portraying ships whose figureheads are literally alive and sentient. While this trilogy does not follow FitzChivalry Farseer's life, it is linked to both the Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies. Hobb is now working on a standalone novel set in the Rain Wilds, tentatively titled "Dragon Keeper".
 * Ship of Magic (1998)
 * The Mad Ship (1999)
 * Ship of Destiny (2000)