Peter S. Beagle

Peter Soyer Beagle is an American author of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays, especially fantasy fiction. His best-known work is The Last Unicorn , a fantasy novel he wrote in his twenties, which Locus subscribers voted the number five "All-Time Best Fantasy Novel" in 1987. During the last twenty-five years he has won several literary awards including a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2011. Beagle was born in Manhattan on April 20, 1939, the son of Rebecca Soyer and Simon Beagle. Beagle won early recognition from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, winning a scholarship... to University of Pittsburgh for a poem he submitted as a high school senior. He went on to graduate from the university with a degree in creative writing. Beagle wrote his first novel, A Fine and Private Place, when he was only 19 years old, following it with a memoir I See By My Outfit in 1965. Today he is best known as the author of The Last Unicorn, and A Fine and Private Place, as well as his later fantasies following The Folk of the Air. In the 1970s, Beagle turned to screenwriting.
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