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Robert Asprin
  • Birth Name:
    Robert Lynn Asprin
  • Date of Birth:
    June 28, 1946
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Cancer
  • Place of Birth:
    St. Johns, Michigan
  • Place of Death:
    New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Date of Death:
    May 22, 2008
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    American
  • Education:
    University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Family

Robert Asprin
  • Father:
    Daniel Asprin
  • Mother:
    Lorraine Cook
  • Spouse:
    Anne Brett , Lynn Abbey
  • Son:
    Daniel
  • Daughter:
    Annette

Career

Robert Asprin

Trivia

Robert Asprin
  • He was to have been the Guest of Honor at Marcon that weekend.
  • He had two books on the New York Times Bestsellers list which piqued the interest of fans and the IRS.
  • Due to a series of personal and financial problems, Asprin stopped writing in the 1990s.
  • In the 1990s, Asprin's "Phule" novels followed the humorous science-fiction exploits of a rag-tag company of the "Space Legion" and its wealthy and iconoclastic leader Willard Phule.
  • In 1978, Asprin began the "MythAdventures" series chronicling the comic adventures of Skeeve and Aahz, with the book Another Fine Myth.

Quotes

Robert Asprin
  • "Writing that's not working for a living."
  • "We're kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into this project was that we are full partners, going fifty-fifty, both on the money and on the say of what's going on with the books."
  • "New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning."
  • "Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks I'm moving too quickly on, and there are things I think he's dragging out. When it gets to the editor they can arbitrate."
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Biography

Robert Asprin
Last Updated: Monday, September 14, 2009

Born in 1946 in St. John's, Michigan, Robert Asprin is the creator of many a humorous science fiction and fantasy worlds-including a collaboration among major writers to create the Thieves World series. Asprin attended the University of Michigan before enlisting in the Army during the Vietnam War. He then spent 12 years working at Xerox before becoming a full-time writer.

He and his then-wife, Lynn Abbey, created the concept of a shared-world novel with the Thieves' World series. They edited and contributed to the series along with such well-known writers as Marion Zimmer Bradley, C.J. Cherryh, Philip Jose Farmer, Joe Haldeman, Vonda McIntyre, Diane Paxson, and A.E. van Vogt. In 1979, Asprin began the pun-filled MYTH series about a demon and his apprentice.

Another first that Asprin is credited with is holding the first public filksing at a convention-Discon 2 in 1974. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he began collaborating with such writers as Peter Heck, Jody Lynn Nye, Eric del Carlo, and Linda Evans.

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