Jane Johnson

Jane Johnson

Jane Johnson (* 1960 in Cornwall , pseudonyms: Jude Fisher , Gabriel King ) is a British fantasy book author. Jane Johnson worked for more than 20 years as a bookseller, fiction publishing director for the US publisher HarperCollins and now as a youth book author .

life and career

After high school, Johnson studied Old English and Old Norse at Goldsmiths College, London University. She then taught English for a while and taught acting for a year at North London College. Fascinated by the Old Norse language, history and literature, she took a master's degree in Scandinavian Studies at University College London .

By chance Johnson got into the publishing house George Allen & Unwin , which also published J. R. R. Tolkien works. Within six months, she was promoted to publishing editor . In the 1980s and 1990s she was responsible for the publication of the fantasy classic The Lord of the Rings . George Allen & Unwin later became part of HarperCollins . During her time at the publishing house, Johnson worked with authors such as Clive Barker , Geoff Ryman , Kim Stanley Robinson , Stephen King, and Raymond Feist , George RR Martin and Arthur C. Clarke . During the filming of Peter Jackson's book adaptation Lord of the Rings , she visited the film team in New Zealand . There she worked on accompanying film books, which she published in the following years under the pseudonym Jude Fisher.

Johnson loves to travel and climb. In 2005 she flew to Morocco to do research there about a distant relative who is said to have been kidnapped by Berber pirates in 1625 and sold into slavery. The book The Tenth Gift was created from the impressions on site . After a climbing accident, she made a lifestyle. Johnson sold her apartment, closed her office in England and moved to Morocco. There she married a local who she had met before her unsuccessful climbing tour. Now she lives with her husband most of the time in a village in the Anti-Atlas , but occasionally comes back to Cornwall. Johnson continues to work as Fiction Publishing Director for HarperCollins.

bibliography

Novels

Magic Gold (Fool's Gold)

As a Jew Fisher; All translated by Katharina Volk.

• Sorcery Rising , Earthlight 2002, ISBN 0-7432-2092-7
  • The magician's fair , Blanvalet 2004, ISBN 3-442-24159-6
• Wild Magic , DAW Books 2003, ISBN 0-7564-0145-3
  • The juggler ship , Blanvalet 2005, ISBN 3-442-24160-X
• The Rose of the World , DAW Books 2005, ISBN 0-7564-0187-9
  • The War of the Three , Blanvalet 2006, ISBN 3-442-24161-8

Tag, the Cat

As Gabriel King.

• The Wild Road , Arrow Books 1997, ISBN 0-09-924252-4
  • On secret paths , Heyne 1999, translator Irene Holicki, ISBN 3-453-16564-0
• The Golden Cat , Century 1998, ISBN 0-7126-7890-5
  • The Golden Cat , Piazza 2001, translator Irene Holicki, ISBN 3-453-19059-9
• The Knot Garden , Century / Random House 2000, ISBN 0-7126-8083-7
• Nonesuch , Arrow Books 2002, ISBN 0-09-929710-8

The Hidden Kingdom (The Eidolon Chronicles)

All translated by Katharina Orgaß and Gerald Jung.

• The Secret Country , Simon & Schuster UK 2005, ISBN 0-689-86081-1
  • The Prince of Eidolon , Ravensburger 2007, ISBN 978-3-473-34710-0
• The Shadow World , Simon & Schuster UK 2006, ISBN 1-4169-1736-5
  • The Prince of Shadows , Ravensburger 2008, ISBN 978-3-473-34721-6
• Dragon's Fire , Simon & Schuster UK 2007, ISBN 1-84738-048-4
  • The mistress of dragons , Ravensburger 2008, ISBN 978-3-473-34732-2

Single novels

• Crossed Bones , Viking 2008, ISBN 978-0-670-91731-0
  • The tenth gift , Goldmann 2010, translator Pociao , ISBN 978-3-442-46800-3
• Maskmaker , Marion Lloyd Books 2010, ISBN 978-1-4071-0687-8
  • Lord of the Masks , Ravensburger 2010, translator Ilse Rothfuss, ISBN 978-3-473-34781-0
• Goldseekers , Marion Lloyd Books 2011, ISBN 978-1-4071-0688-5
• The salt road
  • The soul of the desert , Page & Turner 2010, translator Pociao, ISBN 978-3-442-20344-4
• The sultan's wife
  • The Sultan's Slave Girl , Page & Turner 2012, Translator Pociao, ISBN 978-3-442-20395-6
• Pillars of light , Doubleday 2016, ISBN 978-0385682626
  • The pillars of light , Goldmann 2016, translators Pociao and Roberto de Hollanda, ISBN 978-3-442-47729-6

Non-fiction

As a Jew Fisher.

• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Visual Companion , Houghton Mifflin 2001, ISBN 0-618-15401-9
  • The Lord of the Rings: the official companion book; Figures, landscapes and places in Middle-earth , Klett-Cotta 2001, ISBN 3-608-93504-5
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Visual Companion , Houghton Mifflin 2002, ISBN 0-618-25802-7
  • The Lord of the Rings - the Two Towers: the official companion book; Figures, landscapes and places in Middle-earth , Klett-Cotta 2002, translator Hans J. Schütz, ISBN 3-608-93505-3
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Visual Companion , Houghton Mifflin 2003, ISBN 0-618-39097-9
  • The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King: The Official Journal; Figures, landscapes and places in Middle-earth , Klett-Cotta 2003, translator Hans J. Schütz, ISBN 3-608-93506-1
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Visual Companion , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012, ISBN 978-0-547-89856-8
  • The Hobbit. An unexpected Journey. The official accompanying book , Klett-Cotta 2012, translator Birgit Herden, ISBN 978-3-608-93978-1 (With over 100 color photos from the film and a foreword by Martin Freeman )
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Visual Companion ,
  • The Hobbit. Smaug's wasteland. The official companion book. Figures, Landscapes & Places , Klett-Cotta 2012, translator Joachim Körber, ISBN 978-3-608-96044-0
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Visual Companion , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014, ISBN 978-0-544-42285-8

Web links

• Literature by Jane Johnson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jane Johnson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Jane Johnson in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Works by and about Jane Johnson at Open Library
• Johnson's official website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Jude Fisher - A Life. (No longer available online.) In: JudeFisher.com. June 2002, archived from the original on July 13, 2011 ; Retrieved May 9, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Life. In: JaneJohnsonBooks.com. Retrieved May 9, 2011 .  
3. ^ The story behind the writing of Crossed Bones. In: JaneJohnsonBooks.com. Retrieved May 9, 2011 .