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He was born to Robert Eugene Lawhead and Lois Rowena Bissell Lawhead at Good Samaritan Hospital, Kearney, Nebraska . In 1968 , Lawhead graduated from Kearney High and entered Kearney State College as an Art major. In 1969 , while at Kearney State College, he wrote a weekly humor column for the college Newspaper and was a frequent contributor of Poetry and Short Stories to The Shore Anthology and The Antler. Lawhead met Alice Slaikeu in 1971 and married her in 1972 . He graduated from Kearney State College in 1973 with B.A. in Art and then went on to enroll in Northern Baptist Theological Seminary for the winter semester of 1975 . In 1976 , Lawhead became an editorial assistant for Campus Life Magazine . Beginning in 1981 , Stephen Lawhead began to author Novels , initially fantasy and science fiction. Most of these had a slant towards the Christian beliefs he holds. He moved to Oxford , England in 1986 to do research for The Pendragon Cycle , a reinterpretation of the legend of King Arthur in a Celt ic setting combined with elements of Atlantis . Following this work he became more interested in Celtic history and culture, especially Celtic Christianity . ''The Song of Albion Trilogy'' prompted a return to England, having left in 1987 . This was a series of books set between the Celtic ''Otherworld'' and present-day Britain. In 1996 he published ''Byzantium'', a work of pure Historical Fiction . Since then his work has moved more towards the historical, with ''The Celtic Crusades'' set at the time of the Crusades and ''Patrick'' which follows the historical life of Saint Patrick . Stephen's family also seem to have a talent for writing. Alice Slaikeu Lawhead co-wrote the '' Pilgrims Guide To The New Age '', and his oldest son Ross Lawhead is co-author of the !Hero series. Stephen and Alice have one other son Drake, to whom Stephen dedicated '' The Warlords Of Nin '', the second book in the ''Dragon King Trilogy''. LIST OF NOVELS Many of his books are in series following a common theme: Dragon King trilogy:
Empyrion Saga: The Pendragon Cycle :
The Song of Albion: The Celtic Crusades: !Hero (With Ross Lawhead ):
He has also written several stand-alone novels:
CHILDREN'S FICTION The Brown Ears Books:
The Howard Books
The Riverbank Series
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