S. M. Stirling was born in France in 1953. After that he has lived in Europe, Canada, Africa, and the US. He graduated from Osgoode Hall law school in Canada, and published his first novel (Snowbrother) in 1984, going full-time as a writer in 1988, the year of his marriage to Janet Moore of Milford, Massachusetts, who he met, wooed, and proposed to at successive World Fantasy Conventions. In 1995 he suddenly realized that they could live anywhere and they decamped from Toronto, and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. His latest books are The Sky-Blue Wolves (2018), Black Chamber (2018), Theater of Spies (2019), Shadows of Annihilation (2020), and Daggers in Darkness (2021).
