Peter S. Beagle
American writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1939 · age 87
Peter Soyer Beagle is an American novelist and screenwriter, especially of fantasy fiction. His best-known work is The Last Unicorn (1968) which Locus subscribers voted the number five "All-Time Best Fantasy Novel" in 1987.
Peter S. Beagle is read about 130 times a day, in 23 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.
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Ralph Bakshi Directed The Lord of the Rings (1978)
Saul Zaentz Produced The Lord of the Rings (1978)
Charles Jarrott Directed The Dove (1974)
Arthur Rankin Jr. Directed The Last Unicorn (1982)
Jules Bass Directed The Last Unicorn (1982)
Gilbert Moses Directed The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened (1977)
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He gave them no titles; he never saw the point of doing so.
She’s a lady,” I says, “for all she’s a Portygee, and you’re no more a gentleman than that monkey in your mango tree. Money don’t make such as us into gentlemen, Henry Lee.
We stared at each other in silence for some while, and then I asked him, most politely, “What are you?”“What I need to be,” he answered. “Now this, now that, as necessary.
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During the last 25 years he has won several literary awards, including a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2011. He was named Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by SFWA in 2018.