Barbara Hambly

Barbara Hambly
Born (1951-08-28) August 28, 1951 (age 73)
San Diego, California, U.S.
Pen nameBarbara Hamilton
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story author
  • screenwriter
Alma materUniversity of California, Riverside
GenreScience fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, historical fiction
Notable awardsLord Ruthven Award (1996)
Website
barbarahambly.com

Barbara Hambly (born August 28, 1951) is an American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction. She is the author of the bestselling Benjamin January mystery series featuring a free man of color, a musician and physician, in New Orleans in the antebellum years. She also wrote a novel about Mary Todd Lincoln.

Her science fiction novels occur within an explicit multiverse, as well as within previously existing settings (notably as established by Star Trek and Star Wars).