Karen Wynn Fonstad

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Karen Wynn Fonstad (1945–2005) was the author of several atlases of fictional worlds.

Karen Lea Wynn was born April 18, 1945 in Oklahoma City to parents James and Estis Wynn. Karen graduated from Norman High School in Norman, Oklahoma, and then earned a B.S. degree in Physical Therapy and an M.A. in Geography, specializing in cartography, from the University of Oklahoma. While attending OU she met Todd A. Fonstad: they married on March 21, 1970. They had two children: Dr. Mark A. Fonstad and Kristina (Kristi) Stingle. She died March 11, 2005 of complications from breast cancer.

[edit] Bibliography

Fonstad's speciality was the creation of fictional atlases:

• The Atlas of Pern (1984, ISBN 0-345-31434-4)
  • Pern, basis for the Dragon Riders stories by Anne McCaffrey
• The Atlas of the Land (1985, ISBN 0-345-31431-X)
  • The Land, basis for The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson
• Atlas of the Dragonlance World (1987, ISBN 0-88038-448-4)
  • Krynn, basis for the DragonLance stories by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis (among others)
• The Forgotten Realms Atlas (1990, ISBN 0-88038-857-9)
  • Forgotten Realms, published by TSR
• The Atlas of Middle-earth (Revised Edition) (2001, ISBN 0-618-12699-6)
  • Middle-earth, basis for The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Several of them are available in translated form.

[edit] External links

• Obituary on theonering.net