Charles de Lint with MaryAnn Harris

Novelist, poet, songwriter, performer, and folklorist Charles de Lint
helped to popularize the urban fantasy genre and is the best-selling
author of more than seventy adult, YA, and children’s books. His
most famous and popular works take place around the mythical, modern
city of Newford including  Trader
(1997), Someplace
to be Flying
(1998),  Forests Of
The Heart (2000), The
Onion Girl (2001),
MEDICINE ROAD (illustrated by Charles Vess; 2004), Widdershins
(2006), PROMISES TO KEEP (2007), Seven-Wild Sisters
(2014). and The
Wind in his Heart
(2017). Among his
other notable novels are Moonheart
(1984), The Little
Country (1991),
Into the Green
(1993), Memory and
Dream (1994),
and EYES LIKE LEAVES (2009).

de Lint’s numerous
short stories have been collected in several volumes including
Spiritwalk, Dreams Underfoot
(1993), The Ivory
and the Horn (1995),
Moonlight and Vines
(1999), Triskell
Tales (2000),
Woods and Waters Wild (2008),
Muse and Reverie
(2009), THE VERY BEST
OF CHARLES DE LINT (2010), and Newford Stories: Crow Girls
(2015). He’s written
comics for Dark Horse, Marvel, Malibu, and Mojo Press. In 2011, de
Lint issued his first album Old Blue Truck.

He garnered awards
for many of his publications most notably 1988 Casper (later renamed
the Aurora) for Jack the Giant-Killer (1987),
and 2000 World Fantasy Award for Moonlight and
Vines. The first (Under My Skin
[2012]) and third (Out
of this World
[2014]) volumes of the
Wildings won the 2013 and 2017 Aurora Award. In 2018, de Lint
was given the prestigious World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.

de Lint currently
writes a book review column for Fantasy & Science Fiction
and has served as a judge for the Nebula, the World Fantasy, Theodore
Sturgeon, and the Bram Stoker Awards.

All of us at Tachyon
wish the extraordinary Charles a happy birthday. May your music
forever fill the streets of Newford.

For more information about THE VERY BEST OF CHARLES DE LINT, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Charles Vess

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Cover art by Mike Dringenberg

Design by Elizabeth Story

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Cover by Charles Vess

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Cover art by Lauren Kelly Small

Design by Elizabeth Story