Author
McKinley has won several awards for her writing, some of which has been popular with young readers, and some with mature ones. Her work has been published for thirty years. She has re-told old fairy tales (Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast), and the story of Robin Hood (The Outlaws of Sherwood), sub-created (see Worldbuilding) a country, Damar, in a world like some of the desert or near-desert parts of ours, except that there are dragons (The Blue Sword, The Hero and the Crown). In Chalice she has written a book which takes place in a country that seems entirely of McKinley's creation, except that the culture approximates that of the Middle Ages. There are horses and carriages, but no steam engines, swords but no gunpowder. The printing press does not seem to have been invented yet.
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