Her second marriage to author Walter Breen in 1964 resulted in a son and a daughter, but ended badly in 1990. Her first marriage to Robert Bradley in 1949 lasted fourteen years and they had one son together. Married twice, both of Bradley’s unions ended in divorce. Bradley also trained as a singer, and at one time, in her younger days, worked as a target for a knife thrower in a carnival. In the end, she became a drop-out once more from not one, but three departments of education, “owing to deep disillusion”. She trained not only as a psychologist but also as a parapsychologist. Bradley moved to California soon after and went on to pursue graduate studies at the University of California, Berkely. She returned to college in the mid-sixties, where she graduated from Hardin-Simmons University in Texas with a Bachelor of Arts. Bradley first attended New York State College for Teachers from which she dropped out after two years. She was born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the Great Depression, to a father who was a carpenter and farmer and a mother who was a historian. Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series, often writing with a feminist outlook and even, under a pen name, gay and lesbian titles. Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (1984)
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