Joan D. Vinge

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Joan D. Vinge (pronounced VIN-jee, rhyming with 'stingy') is an American science fiction author. She is known for her Hugo Award-winning novel The Snow Queen, its sequels, and her series about the telepath named Cat.

Born in 1948, in Baltimore, Maryland she has been married twice; first to Vernor Vinge, a libertarian science fiction writer and academic, and subsequently to James Frenkel, science fiction editor. She is the mother of two children.

Vinge studied art in college, but eventually changed her major in anthropology, receiving a B.A. degree in it from San Diego State University, with highest honors.

First story, "Tin Soldier", a novelette, appeared in Orbit 14 in 1974. Stories have also appeared in Analog, Millennial Women, Isaac Asimovs Sf Magazine, Omni, and other magazines and anthologies, including several "Best of the Year" anthologies.

The novel The Snow Queen won the 1981 Hugo Award for Best SF Novel. Story "Eyes of Amber" won the 1977 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Nominated for several other Hugo and Nebula Awards, as well as for the John W. Campbell New Writer Award. Novel "Psion" was named a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association. "Return Of The Jedi Storybook" was the #1 Bestseller on the New York Times Book Review List for two months; it was the first such book to reach #1 on the list, and the bestselling hardcover book of 1983.