Author of fiction that defied classification
Lucius Shepard, an American writer whose elegant style and idiosyncratic imagination made his fiction more or less unclassifiable, was often identified with the magic realists of South America. He was also accepted in the US as a more conventional science fiction and fantasy author. But, essentially, his beautiful writing set him apart from any genre that might have had claims to adopt him.
Shepard, who has died aged 70 of complications from a stroke, came late to writing and was nearly 40 before his first work was published. Although he wrote several novels, his favoured format was the novella, a difficult and uneconomic vehicle for publishers; this preference almost certainly held back the recognition he deserved.
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