Publication Order of Fitz and the Fool Trilogy Books
Fool’s Assassin
2014
Fool’s Quest
2015
Assassin’s Fate
2017
Publication Order of Windsingers Books
Harpy’s Flight
1983
The Windsingers
1984
The Limbreth Gate
1984
Luck of the Wheels
1989
Publication Order of Reindeer People Books
The Reindeer People
1988
Wolf’s Brother
1988
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Wizard of the Pigeons
1986
Cloven Hooves
1991
Alien Earth
1992
The Gypsy (With: Steven Brust)
1992
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince
2013
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Inheritance / The Inheritance & Other Stories
2011
About Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb is the pen name of the American fantasy writer Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, born in Berkeley, California, in 1952. She is best known for the 16 novels of the “Realm of the Elderlings”, which began with “Assassin’s Apprentice” in 1995, and she also writes as Megan Lindholm.
She grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska, from the age of ten, married the merchant mariner Fred Ogden at 18 and settled for a time in Kodiak. Her first sales were short stories for children’s magazines. Her first novel, “Harpy’s Flight”, appeared in 1983, when she was 30 and working as a waitress while raising children. It was the first of four books about the characters Ki and Vandien. “Wizard of the Pigeons” (1986), set in Seattle, is regarded as a forerunner of urban fantasy, and her novella “A Touch of Lavender” was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards. The Lindholm books were well reviewed but did not sell well.
In 1995 she chose the androgynous name Robin Hobb for a new kind of work, epic fantasy told in the first person by a male narrator. The Farseer trilogy follows FitzChivalry Farseer, the illegitimate son of a prince, and an enigmatic figure called the Fool. The Liveship Traders trilogy (1998 to 2000) moved to another part of the same world, with pirates, sea serpents and a family of traders whose ships are alive. The Tawny Man trilogy returned to Fitz, and the four Rain Wild Chronicles novels dealt with the re-emergence of dragons. The Fitz and the Fool trilogy closed the sequence with “Assassin’s Fate” in 2017.
The Soldier Son trilogy, which opened with “Shaman’s Crossing” in 2005, is her only work as Hobb set outside the Elderlings world. “The Inheritance” (2011) collects short stories written under both names.
“Assassin’s Fate” won the David Gemmell Award for best novel in 2018, and “Forest Mage” won the Endeavour Award in 2007. In 2021 she received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. She continues to publish under both names and lives on a small farm outside Roy, Washington.
