When her family moved again, she spent her senior year at Uniontown Area Senior High School, acting, singing, and writing for the school paper. After her parents divorced, her mother moved her and her sisters back to Fayette County in 1969, where she spent two years at Albert Gallatin Senior High. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and so she started to write the kind of books that she was reading. Her interest in fantasy and science fiction began when she was introduced to J. She began reading when she was very young and started writing when she was in the sixth grade. They lived in Miramar for half a year, in El Granada a full year, and then three years in Burlingame. They first lived in San Mateo on El Camino Real and then moved to the other side of the San Francisco Peninsula, in Miramar. In June 1963 she and her family moved to California. From the time she was five until she was eight, she lived in Dunbar. When she was five, her sister Kimberly (on whom she based Alanna) was born and a year later her second sister, Melanie, was born. Her mother wanted to name her 'Tamara' but the nurse who filled out her birth certificate misspelled it as 'Tamora'.

Pierce was born in South Connellsville, Pennsylvania in Fayette County, on December 13, 1954. Pierce's books have been translated into twenty languages. The annual award recognizes one writer and a particular body of work for 'significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature'. Edwards Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) of the American Library Association in 2013, citing her two quartets Song of the Lioness and Protector of the Small (1999–2002). She made a name for herself with her first book series, The Song of the Lioness (1983–1988), which followed the main character Alanna through the trials and triumphs of training as a knight.

Tamora Pierce (born December 13, 1954) is an American writer of fantasy fiction for teenagers, known best for stories featuring young heroines. Pierce at the Boskone science fiction convention in Boston, February 2008

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