Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born 6 August 1934) is an English-American author in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony.
Alfred Jacob, although a British citizen, had been born in America near Philadelphia, and in 1940, after being forced out of Spain and with the situation in Britain deteriorating, the family sailed to the United States.
In 1941 the family settled in a rustic "back to the land" utopian community near Winhall, Vermont, where a young Piers made the acquaintance of radical author Scott Nearing, a neighbor.
Both parents resumed their academic studies, and Alfred eventually became a professor of Romance languages, teaching at a number of colleges in the Philadelphia area. Piers was moved around to a number of schools, eventually enrolling in Goddard College in Vermont where he graduated in 1956.
They were married in 1956, the same year he graduated from Goddard College, and he worked in a series of odd jobs.
In 1957, Anthony decided to join the United States Army, as his wife was now pregnant, and they needed both medical coverage and a steady source of income.
citizen in 1958 and became an editor and cartoonist for his battalion's newspaper. After completing military service, he briefly taught school at Admiral Farragut Academy in St.
Would you write something with dragons in it?", he wrote The Eyes of the Dragon which was originally published in 1984 and later in 1987 by Viking Press. ==But What of Earth?== Early in Anthony's literary career, there was a dispute surrounding the original publication (1976) of But What of Earth?.
In 1987, at age 15, he decided to run away to Florida in order to try to live with Piers Anthony.
Would you write something with dragons in it?", he wrote The Eyes of the Dragon which was originally published in 1984 and later in 1987 by Viking Press. ==But What of Earth?== Early in Anthony's literary career, there was a dispute surrounding the original publication (1976) of But What of Earth?.
In 1989, Anthony (re)published his original But What of Earth? in an annotated edition through Tor Books.
In a piece for science fiction website The AV Club, Jason Heller states that female characters within the books are treated "as obstacles, props, and objects of lust and condescension." Further criticism condemned Anthony's 1990 novel Firefly, which depicts a sexual relationship between an adult man and a five-year-old girl.
The 1991 novel Tatham Mound describes a culture in which women of any age can and do initiate sex. Anthony has defended his work, saying that societal attitudes toward sex are different from culture to culture and that his work reflects those differences.
He often discusses correspondence with readers and any real-world issues that influenced the novel. Since about 2000, Anthony has written his novels in a Linux environment. Anthony's Xanth series was ranked No.
For this service, he won the 2003 "Friend of EPIC" award for service to the electronic publishing community.
Penny died in 2009, due to complications from skin cancer, and Cheryl has one child named Logan.
This edition contains an introduction and conclusion setting out the story of the novel's permutations and roughly 60 pages of notes by Anthony giving examples of changes to plot and characters, and describing some of the comments made by copy editors on his manuscript. ==Controversy== Throughout the 2010s, numerous science fiction community sources published analyses and editorials describing Anthony's writings as sexist, misogynistic, and pedophilic.
99 in a 2011 NPR readers' poll of best science fiction and fantasy books. ==In other media== Act One of episode 470 of the radio program This American Life is an account of boyhood obsessions with Piers Anthony.
On This American Life on 27 July 2012, Anthony revealed that his parents had divorced, he was bullied, and he had poor grades in school.
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