Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Born	May 11, 1927 Lemoore, California, United States
Died	October 7, 2014 (aged 87) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation	novelist
Nationality	American
Genre	Fantasy
Notable works	The Egypt Game series
Spouse	Larry Snyder
Children	3: Susan Melissa, Douglas, and Ben
Website
www.zksnyder.com

Zilpha Keatley Snyder (May 11, 1927 – October 7, 2014) was an American author of books for children and young adults. Three of Snyder's works were named Newbery Honor books: The Egypt Game, The Headless Cupid and The Witches of Worm. Between 1964 and 2011, Snyder completed 43 books. She was most famous for writing adventure stories and fantasies.

Biography

Snyder was born in Lemoore, California, and spent all but brief periods of her life in Northern California.^[1] She began writing around 1964. Snyder died at the age of 87 in 2014 from a stroke in San Francisco.^[2]

Bibliography

Game Series

• The Egypt Game (1967)
• The Gypsy Game (1997)

Supplemental materials

• The Gypsy Game Teacher's Guide (1998)

Stanley Family Series

• The Headless Cupid (1971) (a.k.a. A Witch in the Family)
• The Famous Stanley Kidnapping Case (1979)
• Blair's Nightmare (1985)
• Janie's Private Eyes (1989)

Green Sky trilogy

• Below the Root (1975)
• And All Between (1976)
• Until the Celebration (1977)

Castle Court Series

• The Box and the Bone (1995)
• The Diamond War (1995)
• Ghost Invasion (1995)
• Secret Weapons (1995)

Gib Series

• Gib Rides Home (1998)
• Gib and the Gray Ghost (2000)

Other novels

• Season of Ponies (1964)
• The Velvet Room (1965)
• Zilpha Keatley Snyder (1966)
• Black and Blue Magic (1967)
• Eyes in the Fishbowl (1968)
• Today Is Saturday (1969)
• The Changeling (1970)
• The Witches of Worm (1972)
• The Princess and the Giants (1973)
• The Truth About Stone Hollow (1974) (a.k.a. The Ghosts of Stone Hollow)
• Heirs of Darkness (1978)
• A Fabulous Creature (1981)
• Come on Patsy(1982)
• The Birds of Summer (1983)
• The Changing Maze (1983)
• And Condors Danced (1987)
• Squeak Saves the Day and Other Tooley Tales (1988)
• Song of the Gargoyle (1991)
• Libby on Wednesday (1991)
• Fool's Gold (1993)
• Cat Running (1994)
• The Trespassers (1995)
• The Runaways (1999)
• Spyhole Secrets (2001)
• The Ghosts of Rathburn Park (2002)
• The Unseen (2004)
• The Magic Nation Thing (2005)
• The Treasures Of Weatherby (2006)
• The Bronze Pen (2008)
• William S and the Great Escape (2009)
• William's Midsummer Dreams (2011)

Other works

• Snyder was heavily involved in Below the Root, a 1984 computer game that is set in the Green Sky universe after the events of Until the Celebration. She worked with programmer Dale Disharoon on several aspects of the game, including the map and characters.^[3]

Notes

1. ^ Instruction manual for Below the Root

References

2. Obituary: Zilpha Keatley Snyder
3. Zilpha Keatley Snyder: Autobiography.

External links

• Official website
• Works by Zilpha Keatley Snyder at Open Library
• Snyder at Library of Congress Authorities, with 58 catalog records