Robin Hobb (real name Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden) – American fantasy author, best known for The Farseer Trilogy and The Liveship Traders. She built the richly detailed Realm of the Elderlings, with intricate worldbuilding and emotionally complex characters, cementing her as one of the foremost voices in epic fantasy.
✨ First published under the name Megan Lindholm, writing sci-fi and fantasy. 📚 Breakthrough came with Assassin’s Apprentice, introducing FitzChivalry. 🌊 In The Liveship Traders, she reinvented nautical fantasy with sentient ships. 🐉 Her dragons are fully realised beings with culture and personality. 🏆 Her books hit NYT Bestsellers and won awards including Hugo and Locus. 💬 Nicknamed “the master of pain” for making readers cry with her plots. 📖 Prefers immersive, character-driven storytelling with slow-burn development. 🌍 Her works have been translated into dozens of languages. 🖊 Often writes in first-person to deepen intimacy with the reader. 😲 Keeps goats and chickens at her Washington home – inspiration for her creatures. 🙂 Jokes that her magic is making fans curse her characters yet love them even more.