Stormqueen: A Darkover Novel (Daw Book Collectors No. 292)

"Born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the Great Depression, she began writing in 1949 and sold her first story to Vortex in 1952. She was married to Robert Alden Bradley from October 26, 1949 until their divorce on May 19, 1964. During the 1950s she was introduced to the cultural and campaigning lesbian group the Daughters of Bilitis. After her divorce she quickly married Walter Breen on June 3, 1964. They separated in 1979 but remained married until their divorce on May 9, 1990. After his eventual arrest a year later for illicit relations with an underage teen, she gave a deposition acknowledging she knew of his relations with a couple of teenage boys. His accusers claim she supported him in hiding it in subsequent years. In 1965 Bradley graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. Afterward, she moved to Berkeley, California, to pursue graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley between 1965 and 1967. Her first child, David Bradley, and brother, Paul Edwin Zimmer are published science fiction & fantasy authors in their own right. Her daughter, Moira Stern, is a professional harpist and singer. After suffering declining health for years, Marion Zimmer Bradley died at Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley on September 25, 1999 four days after suffering a debilitating heart attack. Her ashes were scattered at Glastonbury Tor, in Somerset, England, two months later."