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Harry Turtledove

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About the Author

Harry Turtledove is the award-winning author of the alternate-history works The Man with the Iron Heart, The Guns of the South, and How Few Remain (winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Novel); the Hot War books: Bombs Away, Fallout, and Armistice; the War That Came Early novels: Hitler’s War, West and East, The Big Switch, Coup d’Etat, Two Fronts, and Last Orders; the Worldwar saga: In the Balance, Tilting the Balance, Upsetting the Balance, and Striking the Balance; the Colonization books: Second Contact, Down to Earth, and Aftershocks; the Great War epics: American Front, Walk in Hell, and Breakthroughs; the American Empire novels: Blood and Iron, The Center Cannot Hold, and Victorious Opposition; and the Settling Accounts series: Return Engagement, Drive to the East, The Grapple, and In at the Death. Turtledove is married to fellow novelist Laura Frankos. They have three daughters—Alison, Rachel, and Rebecca—and two granddaughters, Cordelia Turtledove Katayanagi and Phoebe Quinn Turtledove Katayanagi.

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Author Harry Turtledove on his ideal writing environment and bookstore shopping | Author Shorts

Author Harry Turtledove on his ideal writing environment and bookstore shopping | Author Shorts Video

Author Harry Turtledove on his ideal writing environment and bookstore shopping | Author Shorts

Harry Turtledove on the book that helped him find his writing...and his wife! | authorcuts Video

Harry Turtledove on the book that helped him find his writing…and his wife! | authorcuts