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Mark Anthony is an American author who lives and writes in Colorado.

Mark Anthony
Nationality	American

Career

Anthony wrote a number of novels based on Dungeons & Dragons published worlds, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, and Ravenloft.[1] His first such novel was Crypt of the Shadowking in The Harpers series, and he has written several short stories as well.

Anthony was commissioned by TSR to write a novel about Drizzt Do'Urden called The Shores of Dusk by the time Wizards of the Coast had purchased TSR; however, Wizards declined to publish Anthony's completed novel in favor of bringing back R. A. Salvatore to write about Drizzt, starting with The Silent Blade (1998).[2]

Anthony is best known for The Last Rune series, which he developed to explore the idea that reason and wonder need not exist in conflict.[3] Recently^[when?] he has written a trilogy under the pseudonym Galen Beckett, beginning with a novel The Magicians and Mrs. Quent, whose blurb, similarly to The Last Rune, claims that the book was written to given an answer to the question "what if there was a fantastical cause underlying the social constraints and limited choices confronting a heroine in a novel by Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte?".[4]

Partial bibliography

The Last Rune series

• Beyond the Pale (1998)
• The Keep of Fire (1999)
• The Dark Remains (2001)
• Blood of Mystery (2002)
• The Gates of Winter (2003)
• The First Stone (2004)

The Magicians and Mrs. Quent series

• The Magicians And Mrs. Quent (2008) (as Galen Beckett)
• The House on Durrow Street (2010) (as Galen Beckett)
• The Master of Heathcrest Hall (2012) (as Galen Beckett)

Forgotten Realms novels

• Crypt of the Shadowking (1993)
• Curse of the Shadowmage (1995)
• Escape from Undermountain (1996)

Dragonlance novels

• Kindred Spirits (with Ellen Porath) (1991)

Ravenloft novels

• Tower of Doom (1994)

References

External links

• Mark Anthony's official website
• Interview at SFFWorld.com
• Mark Anthony at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Galen Beckett's official website
• "Mark Anthony :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on January 3, 2011.

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