Lucinda Hare biography

Lucinda Hare was born in Edinburgh in 1958 and spent her childhood in rural East Lothian, where she spent much of her time roaming the beaches and woods. It was there that her lifelong passions for animals, history, reading and drawing began. She spent years daydreaming about the Roman legions, medieval knights and the American west and rather than write about the dreams and stories in her head, she drew them purely from her imagination.

When she was eleven she was introduced to The Lord of the Rings which combined her own passions for history, legend and fantasy. Still her favourite book, she was thrilled with Peter Jackson’s recent Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. After reading history at university she went on to pursue a busy and diverse career in many different companies and organisations, ranging from the Argus Newspaper Group in Cape Town, to the Scottish Post Office.

The characters at the heart of The Dragon Whisperer are dragons with their own language and character who owe the inspiration for their names to Native American culture.

Lucinda has found a great publisher in Random House Children’s Books whose editors have curbed her wayward imagination and ensured she sticks to one story at a time.

October 6th 2010 interview with Lucinda Hare

Lucinda Hare was born in Edinburgh and spent her childhood in rural East Lothian, where she spent much of her time roaming the beaches and woods. When she was eleven she was introduced to The Lord of the Rings, which combined her own passions for history, legend and fantasy. The characters at the [...]

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