Tanith Lee, September 19, 1947 – May 24, 2015
Tanith Lee’s website, tanith-lee.com, is reporting that she passed away on May 24th. I read my first Tanith Lee novel, Kill the Dead, in 1987. It was her twenty-fifth novel. In her long career she wrote 90 novels and some 300 short stories, as well as two episodes of the BBC series Blake’s 7. Lee often mentioned that she was unable to read until she was 8, due to a mild form of dyslexia, and she began to write at…