The Venom Trees of Sunga

About the Author

L. Sprague de Camp, who has over ninety-five books to his credit, writes in several fields: historicals, SF, fantasy, biography, and popularizations of science. But his favorite genre of literature is fantasy.

De Camp is a master of that rare animal called humorous fantasy. As a young writer collaborating with the late Fletcher Pratt, he set forth the world-hopping adventures of Harold Shea and the delightfully zany Tales from Gavagan's Bar, a book that has remained in print for forty years.

In 1976, at the thirty-fourth World Science Fiction Convention, he received The Gandalf-Grand Master Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Field of Fantasy. The Science Fiction Writers of America presented him with their Grand Master Nebula Award of 1978. Alone, and with his wife and sometime collaborator, Catherine, de Camp has been a welcome guest of honor at fan conventions throughout the United States.

The de Camps live in Texas. They have two sons: Lyman Sprague and Gerard Beekman, both of whom are distinguished engineers.