After writing a handful of essays, a collection of short stories, a dozen novels and winning two World Fantasy Awards KJ Parker in 2015 put the mystery of his identity to rest. It finishes with the assertion that the author is lives in South England with his wife, a solicitor. According to his biography, he was raised in rural Vermont, which was a great influence on most of his works. Prior to his press release admitting to writing as KJ Parker, his biographical notes asserted that KJ was an author that previously worked in numismatics, journalism, and law, and retired to dabble in metal and woodwork. Best known for “The Fencer”, “The Scavenger”, and “The Engineer Trilogies”, it is only in early 2015 that Tom Holt the author of parody science fiction novels came out to assert that he was the writer behind the identity of KJ Parker. KJ Parker is the pen name for Tom Holt, who for 17 years had been a mysterious author whose identity was hidden to his cult of fantasy fiction readers.
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