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Kage Baker - Definition and Overview |
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Kage Baker is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, best known for her "The Company" series of historical time travel science fiction. Her first stories were published in Asimov's Science Fiction in 1997, and her first novel, In The Garden of Iden, by Hodder & Stoughton in the same year. Other notable works include Mendoza in Hollywood (novel, 2000) and "The Empress of Mars" (novella, 2003), which has been nominated for a Hugo Award.
Baker was born June 10, 1952 in Hollywood, California and has lived there and in Pismo Beach most of her life. Before becoming a professional writer she spent many years in theater, including teaching Elizabethan English as a second language.
Her unusual first name is a portmanteau of the names of her two grandmothers, Kate and Genevieve.
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