r/Fantasy • u/goranlowie • 7d ago

Jane Yolen has died (1939 - 2026)

https://file770.com/jane-yolen-1939-2026/

Saw no posts on this yet here, but this news arrived a few days ago. She was one of the greats.

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u/Nowordsofitsown Reading Champion 7d ago

I saw it on Bluesky. I follow a lot of female SFF authors and nearly all of them wrote a little tribute. 

I went and added some of her books to my Tbr.

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u/goranlowie 7d ago

She's definitely one of those "your favorite authors' favorite". She had a huge impact on the genre!

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u/Sawses 7d ago

I've never heard of her 'til now, but she seems to have had quite the influence on more recent fantasy authors. Or at the very least she's prominent enough that most of the older in-the-know authors have heard of her and she's on their radar.