Background
Lisa Anne Barnett was born on August 24, 1958, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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Barnett attended Girls' Latin School (now Boston Latin Academy).
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Lisa Anne Barnett graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.
Lisa Anne Barnett with her partner and co-author Melissa Scott
Lisa Anne Barnett
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The Armor of Light is an Elizabethan alternate history, in which magic works the way Elizabethan Englishmen thought it should. In this novel, Christopher Marlowe, one of England's greatest poets and playwrights, didn't die in the tavern brawl that killed him in our world, because Sir Philip Sidney, one of England's greatest soldiers and courtiers, did not die of the wound he received at Zutphen several years earlier, so he was in the right place at the right time to save Marlowe. Therefore, when Queen Elizabeth's horoscope reveals a terrible danger from a Scottish wizard, Sidney, and Marlowe, both students of magic, are available to travel to Scotland and face the danger. Sidney and Marlowe reach the Scottish court, confront both the magical threat and intrigue from all sides (including dangers from their presumed allies), and receive help from unexpected quarters.
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1988
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Nicolas Rathe is a pointsman, a dedicated watchman in the great city of Astreiant. During the annual trade fair, with a city filled with travelers and merchants, someone is stealing children. The populace is getting angry and frightened and convinced that a foreigner must be to blame. Rathe calls on the aid of both an out-of-work soldier, the handsome Philip Eslingen, and the necromancer Istre b’Estorr. The art of astrology is a very real power in the kingdom and plays as much a role in politics as greed and intrigue. Rathe finds himself struggling to find the children before a major astrological event brings about catastrophe. The first in a series of fantasy novels filled with adventure, intrigue and gay romance.
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1995
(The citizens of Astreiant have become obsessed with a new...)
The citizens of Astreiant have become obsessed with a new play, The Drowned Island, a lurid farrago of melodrama and innuendo. Pointsman Nicolas Rathe is not amused, however, at a real dead body found on the stage and must investigate. A string of murders follows, perhaps related to the politically important masque that is to play on that same stage. Rathe must once again call on the help of his soldier lover, Philip Eslingen, whose knowledge of actors and the stage blends well with Rathe’s own hard-won experience of human greed and magical mayhem. Their task is complicated by the season, for it is the time of year when the spirits of the dead haunt the city and influence everyone, and also by the change in their relationship when the loss of Philip’s job forces him to move in with Nicolas.
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2001
Lisa Anne Barnett was born on August 24, 1958, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Barnett attended Girls' Latin School (now Boston Latin Academy).
She graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.
Lisa Anne Barnett worked in publishing since she was in college, starting as an editorial assistant at Baker’s Plays in Boston.
In 1988, she went to work for the publisher Heinemann and began developing and editing a series of books focusing on teaching students about various aspects of the theatre, such as writing and directing plays.
Barnett began her writing career in collaboration with Melissa Scott. Published in 1988, their novel Armor of Light is an alternate history and fantasy set in Elizabethan England that features as its central heroes the historical figures Sir Philip Sidney, a Renaissance English soldier and courtier, and playwright Christopher Marlowe. In this alternative history, Sidney and Marlowe do not die as they did in real life but live on to help the queen of England, whose horoscope warns of a threat from a Scottish wizard. The fictional Sidney and Marlowe, who are both well-versed in the art of magic, set out for the Scottish Court to face the threat and become involved in a world of intrigue, including appearances by such real-life characters as Sir Walter Raleigh and William Shakespeare. Writing in the Wilson Library Bulletin about how science fiction and fantasy incorporate themes pertinent to modern life.
Barnett's next collaboration with Scott, Point of Hopes, also involves a medieval world of fantasy, magic, and deceit. The authors introduce the Kingdom of Chenedolle, where all major decisions are based on the horoscope and magic. During the city of Astreiant’s annual fair, children begin to go missing and the handsome Nicholas Rathe, a "pointsman" or policeman, is appointed to find them and solve the mystery. In the process Rathe enlists the aid of ex-soldier Philip Eslinger and necromancer Istre B'Estorr.
Barnett co-authored with Scott again for another tale featuring pointsman Rathe and his partner Eslinger, who is by now also his lover. In Point of Dreams the authors incorporate Barnett’s expertise in the theatre to set up a plot revolving around the City of Astreiant’s midwinter annual masque, a short allegorical drama performed by masked actors. This time the mystery revolves around a dead body found on the masque’s rehearsal stage. The cause of death was drowning, but there is no water nearby. To further complicate the plot, the masque occurs at the same time of year when ghosts walk the earth because of the conjunction of the stars. Rathe begins to investigate the murder as the death toll mounts due to the untimely demise of several persons associated with the masque and its actors.
(The Armor of Light is an Elizabethan alternate history, i...)
1988(The citizens of Astreiant have become obsessed with a new...)
2001(Nicolas Rathe is a pointsman, a dedicated watchman in the...)
1995Lisa Anne Barnett was a member of the Piscataqua Obedience Club, as well as a volunteer with EPONA (Equine Protection of North America) - the organization for the protection of horses in North America. She gave this organization a day or two a week. Barnett's attachment to horses began in early childhood, when her father, a carpenter, made her a wooden horse with a fluffy mane, which became Lisa's favorite toy.
Lisa's friends and partners noted her great erudition and great love for the theater.
Lisa Barnett lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with her partner, Melissa Scott, from 1979 until her death of brain tumor and breast cancer on May 2, 2006.