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First Light

Erica Wagner

Described by Philip Pullman as 'the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkein', Alan Garner has been enrapturing readers with works like The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Owl Service, Red Shift and The Stone Book Quartet for more than half a century. Now, a group of the writers and artists he has inspired over the years have come together to celebrate his life and work in First Light.
Publication date: 05 May, 2016
Status: Published
Format: : Paperback
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Description

This anthology includes original contributions from David Almond, Margaret Atwood, John Burnside, Susan Cooper, Helen Dunmore, Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Garner, Paul Kingsnorth, Katherine Langrish, Helen Macdonald, Robert Macfarlane, Gregory Maguire, Neel Mukherjee, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith, Elizabeth Wein, Michael Wood and many, many more.

Whether a literary essay, a personal response to Garner's writing or a story about the man himself, each piece is a tribute to his remarkable impact. Edited by the acclaimed journalist and novelist Erica Wagner, First Light will touch the heart of anyone who grew up reading Alan Garner.

About the Author

Erica Wagner


Erica Wagner is an author and journalist, born in New York City, but resident in London. Her first job was helping her mother open the fan mail for The Muppets, but she came to England in the 1980s, and was educated at Cambridge and the University of East Anglia, where she was taught by Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain. She went on to become the Literary Editor of The Times between 1996 and 2013.
Erica is the author of Gravity (1997) a collection of short stories and Ariel’s Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of Birthday Letters (2000). Her first novel Seizure (2007) was described by the writer Claire Messud as ‘lyrical, compelling, profoundly unsettling…a novel like no other’. As well as editing First Light she is working on a new book, The Chief Engineer: A Biography of Washington Roebling, the Man Who Built Brooklyn Bridge.
She has judged many literary prizes including the Orange Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the Forward Prize for poetry and twice been a judge for the Man Booker Prize.

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