| Leonard Carpenter | |
| Birth Date: | February 6, 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Author |
| Genre: | Fantasy, science fiction |
Leonard Paul Carpenter (born February 6, 1948) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction. He writes as Leonard Carpenter and Leonard P. Carpenter.
Carpenter was born in 1948[1] in Chicago, but aside from a year in West Texas in childhood has lived most of his life in California.[2] He married Cheryl Lynn Chrisman on October 10, 1970, in Alameda, California.[3] They attended UC Berkeley, from which they both graduated, and had two daughters and a son. The Carpenters lived in Santa Maria, California from 1975 to 2003, and continued to reside on the California Central Coast thereafter. Cheryl, a schoolteacher, retired in 2013 and died January 24, 2014, after a year-long fight with cancer.[4] Since her death Carpenter has traveled and worked on book projects.[2]
Among Carpenter's works are eleven Conan novels published by Tor Books. He has also written the science fiction novel Fatal Strain, later re-titled Biohacker, the historical fiction novel Lusitania Lost, and a number of short stories, articles and poems.
Carpenter's writing has been published in the magazines Amazing Stories, Asimov's Science Fiction, Eldrich Tales, and 2AM, as well as the anthologies Dark Lessons (1985), L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume I (1985), The Year's Best Horror Stories XIV (1986), Horrorstory Volume 5 (1989), The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVII (1989), Short Sharp Shocks (1990), The Cthulhu Cycle (1996), Serve It Forth — Cooking With Anne McCaffrey (1996), L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XV (1999), and L. Ron Hubbard Presents the Best of Writers of the Future (2000).
Carpenter has been the recipient of the Writers of the Future award and the Origins Award for Best Game Related Fiction.