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 Kage Baker was an American science fiction and fantasy writer born in Hollywood, California on 10 June 1952.
She spent most of her life where she was born and in Pismo Beach, and after finishing school she held a number of jobs, including graphic artist and mural painter and lower clerical-position worker. Later she worked as a playwright, bit player, director, teacher of Elizabethan English for the stage, stage manager and educational program assistant coordinator.
Her name, pronounced “cage”, was a combination of her grandmothers’ names, Kate and Genevieve, and she had six siblings, four nieces and two nephews.
She is best known for her nine-novel series entitled Company - a historical time travel science fiction series. It includes titles such as In the Garden of Iden, The Children of the Company and The Sons of Heaven.
Her first stories were published in Asimov’s Science Fiction in 1997 and that same year she produced her first novel, In the Garden of Iden.
Kage claims that 20 years of total immersion in Elizabethan as well as other historical periods had provided her with a working knowledge of period speech and details.
Her The Empress of Mars, a novella written in 2003, won the Theodore Sturgeon Award and was nominated for a Hugo Award, and her short story Caverns of Mystery as well as her novel House of the Stag were both nominated for World Fantasy Awards.
In 2008 Kage donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections of Northern Illinois University and in January 2010 it was reported that she had fallen ill.
She was diagnosed with uterine cancer and on 31 January 2010 she passed away at her home in Pismo Beach, California.
Later that year her The Women of Nell Gwynne’s was nominated for a Hugo Award and a World Fantasy Award. In May that year it was awarded the 2009 Nebula Award in the Best Novella Category. [edit]
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