Farah Mendlesohn is a historian and critic. She has chaired the Science Fiction Foundation; served as the President of the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts, and been involved in both national and international convention running.
She is the author of several books about science fiction and fantasy literature and is best known for her book Rhetorics of Fantasy. She won the Hugo Award for The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (edited with Edward James). Her most recent book, Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction (with Michael M Levy) won the World Fantasy Award in 2017 and the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies in 2018.
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