she turned her interest to other fields.' Other novels įor The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, chief editor John Clute calls Russell an 'author who established a strong reputation for cognitive subtlety and narrative power in her brief career after the Emilio Sandoz sequence . Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1998. Clarke, BSFA, and Tiptree annual science fiction book awards ( below), and it was the basis for Russell winning the John W. Both explore the problem of evil (theodicy) and how to reconcile a benevolent, omniscient, all-powerful deity with lives filled with undeserved suffering. Russell's first two novels, The Sparrow and its sequel Children of God-sometimes called the Sparrow series or Emilio Sandoz sequence -(Random House Villard in 19) have been called speculative fiction and focused on the religious and psychological implications of first contact with aliens. She graduated from Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois, which has registered its chapter of the National English Honor Society. Mary Doria Russell (born August 19, 1950) is an American novelist. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Kurd Lasswitz Preis, ALA Top Pick in Historical Fiction, Ohioana Fiction Prize The Sparrow, A Thread of Grace, Doc, Epitaph

Russell at the annual conference of the American Library Association, January 2008

Maria doria russell the sparrow