Edward Abbey
spent most of his life in the American Southwest. He was the author of
numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the celebrated Desert Solitaire, which decried the waste of America's wilderness, and the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang,
the title of which is still in use today to describe groups that
purposefully sabotage projects and entities that degrade the
environment. Abbey was also one of the country's foremost defenders of
the natural environment. He died in 1989.
Lynn Abbey began publishing in 1979 with the novel Daughter of the Bright Moon and the short story "The Face of Chaos," part of a Thieves World shared world anthology. She received early encouragement from Gordon R. Dickson.