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Piers Anthony (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob) was born on 6 August, 1934 in Oxford, England, is an English-American writer (born 1934). Discover Piers Anthony's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

Popular As Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
Occupation Novelist, short story writer
Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 6 August 1934
Birthday 6 August
Birthplace Oxford, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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Who Is Piers Anthony's Wife?

His wife is Carol Marble (m. 1956-2019) MaryLee Boyance (m. 2020)

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Parents Alfred Jacob and Norma Jacob
Wife Carol Marble (m. 1956-2019) MaryLee Boyance (m. 2020)
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Children 2

Piers Anthony Net Worth

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1934

Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born 6 August 1934) is an American author in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony.

He is best known for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.

Many of his books have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, and he claims one of his greatest achievements has been to publish a book beginning with every letter of the alphabet, from Anthonology to Zombie Lover.

1936

Anthony's parents, Alfred and Norma Jacob, were Quaker pacifists studying at Oxford University who interrupted their studies in 1936 to undertake relief work on behalf of the Quakers during the Spanish Civil War, establishing a food kitchen for children in Barcelona.

Piers and his sister were left in England in the care of their maternal grandparents and a nanny.

1940

Alfred Jacob, although a British citizen, had been born in America near Philadelphia, and in 1940, after being forced out of Spain and with the situation in Britain deteriorating, the family sailed to the United States.

1941

In 1941 the family settled in a rustic "back to the land" utopian community near Winhall, Vermont, where a young Piers made the acquaintance of radical author Scott Nearing, a neighbor.

Both parents resumed their academic studies, and Alfred eventually became a professor of Romance languages, teaching at a number of colleges in the Philadelphia area.

1956

Piers was moved around to a number of schools, eventually enrolling in Goddard College in Vermont where he graduated in 1956.

They were married in 1956, the same year he graduated from Goddard College, and he worked in a series of odd jobs.

1957

In 1957, Anthony decided to join the United States Army, as his wife was now pregnant, and they needed both medical coverage and a steady source of income.

1958

During his two-year enlistment, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1958 and became an editor and cartoonist for his battalion's newspaper.

After completing military service, he briefly taught school at Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg, Florida before deciding to try to become a full-time writer.

Anthony and his wife made a deal: if he could sell a piece of writing within one year, she would continue to work to support him.

But if he could not sell anything in that year, then he would forever give up his dream of being a writer.

At the end of the year, he managed to get a short story published.

He credits his wife as the person who made his writing career possible, and he advises aspiring writers that they need to have a source of income other than their writing in order to get through the early years of a writing career.

On multiple occasions Anthony has moved from one publisher to another (taking a popular series with him) when he says he felt the editors were unduly tampering with his work.

He has sued publishers for accounting malfeasance and won judgments in his favor.

Anthony maintains an Internet Publishers Survey in the interest of helping aspiring writers.

1987

In 1987, at age 15, he decided to run away to Florida in order to try to live with Piers Anthony.

The story includes Anthony's reflections on these events.

2000

Since about 2000, Anthony has written his novels in a Linux environment.

2003

For this service, he won the 2003 "Friend of EPIC" award for service to the electronic publishing community.

His website won the Special Recognition for Service to Writers award from Preditors and Editors, an author's guide to publishers and writing services.

His popular novel series Xanth has been optioned for movies.

It inspired the DOS video game Companions of Xanth, by Legend Entertainment.

The same series also spawned the board game Xanth by Mayfair Games.

Anthony's novels usually end with a chapter-long Author's Note, in which he talks about himself, his life, and his experiences as they related to the process of writing the novel.

He often discusses correspondence with readers and any real-world issues that influenced the novel.

2011

Anthony's Xanth series was ranked No. 99 in a 2011 NPR readers' poll of best science fiction and fantasy books.

Act One of episode 470 of the radio program This American Life is an account of boyhood obsessions with Piers Anthony.

The act is written and narrated by writer Logan Hill who, as a 12-year-old, was consumed with reading Anthony's novels.

For a decade he felt he must have been Anthony's number one fan, until, when he was 22, he met "Andy" at a wedding and discovered their mutual interest in the writer.

Andy is interviewed for the story and explains that, as a teenager, he had used escapist novels in order to cope with his alienating school and home life in Buffalo, New York.

2012

On This American Life on 27 July 2012, Anthony revealed that his parents had divorced, he was bullied, and he had poor grades in school.

Anthony referred to his high school as a "very fancy private school", and refuses to donate money to it.

He recalls being part of "the lower crust", and that no one paid attention to, or cared about him.

He said, "I didn't like being a member of the underclass, of the peons like that".

Anthony met his future wife, Carol Marble, while both were attending college.