Sharon Green
Sharon Green (6 July 1942 – 17 February 2022) was an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and romance author. Biography Green was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1942 to Morris Green and Esther (née Bender) Green. She attended high school in Brooklyn and graduated with a B.A. degree from New York University in 1963. Green married in 1963 and had three sons. In 1976, Green divorced her husband and raised her three sons, Andy, Brian and Curtis, as a single mother in Highland Park, New Jersey. Green moved to Tennessee in 1993 and then to Florida in 2006. She moved to Old Bridge, New Jersey in 2020. Green died at the Roosevelt Care Center on Thursday, February 17, 2022. Career Green began writing in high school. She styled her early writings after her favorite writer, Robert A. Heinlein. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked in several industries including as an AT&T shareowner correspondent, a construction assistant, then a bar steel assistant sales manager at an import firm. Green began her full time writing career in 1984. Her early works were marketed as similar to John Norman's Gor series, but were actually intended as a rebuttal to Gor. Green said that she set out first to lampoon Norman's Gor books by creating three-dimensional female characters and powerful female characters in similar fantasy settings. Throughout her career she focused on writing strong female characters. Published works This is a selected list of Green's published works. Her website reissued some of her older out-of-print books and released several new unissued eBooks series. The Blending series Convergence: Book One of The Blending, Avon, November 1996 Competitions: Book Two of The Blending, Avon, March 1997 Challenges: Book Three of The Blending, Avon, May 1998 Betrayals: Book Four of The Blending, Avon, February 1999 Prophecy: Book Five of The Blending, Avon, July 1999 The Blending Enthroned series Intrigues: Book One of The Blending Enthroned, Eos, October 3, 2000 Deceptions: Book Two of The Blending Enthroned, April 3, 2001 Destiny: Book Three of The Blending Enthroned, Eos, April 2, 2002 Diana Santee, Spaceways Agent series Science fiction series with later sequels released directly on Green's website. Mind Guest, DAW Books, 1984 (re-released online) Gateway to Xanadu, DAW Books, 1985 (re-released online with newly restored scenes) Online Sequels Tanderon Tristesse Book One Tristesse Book Two Esmonia Xanthia Aysanne Tildor, CF Publications, 2008 Restin, CF Publications, 2008 Absar, CF Publications, 2008 Gralling Durell Far Side of Forever series Fantasy series The Far Side of Forever, DAW Books, 1987 Hellhound Magic, DAW Books, 1989 Hidden Realms series Fantasy series The Hidden Realms, Avon, 1993 Game's End, Avon, April, 1996 Also part of Silver Princess, Golden Knight series: Dark Mirror, Dark Dreams, Avon, 1994 Jalav: Amazon Warrior series Science fiction series The Crystals of Mida, DAW Books, 1982 An Oath to Mida, DAW Books, 1983 Chosen of Mida, DAW Books, 1984 The Will of the Gods, DAW Books, 1985 To Battle the Gods, DAW Books, 1986 Lady Blade, Lord