Lawrence Watt-Evans

Lawrence Watt-Evans (born 1954) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer who has attempted to sell stories since childhood; his first major sale, The Lure of the Basilisk, appeared in 1980. His hyphenated pen name was coined by editor Lester del Rey to distinguish him from another writer of the same name. He is best known for the Legends of Ethshar series, a long-running sequence of fantasy novels set in a magic-saturated world, some volumes of which he distributed online under the reader-funded Street Performer Protocol. Watt-Evans won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" (1988) and has also written science fiction under the pen name Nathan Archer. He served as president of the Horror Writers Association from 1994 to 1996, held offices in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and co-founded the small press Malicious Press, which published the horror magazine Deathrealm.