Harpist in the Wind

Patricia A. McKillip (1948-2022) was an American fantasy author best known for her novel The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, which won the World Fantasy Award in 1975, and the Riddle-Master trilogy. She garnered multiple Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, including for Something Rich and Strange (1994), Ombria in Shadow (2002), Solstice Wood (2006), and Kingfisher (2016), and received the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008.