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Prolific writer Peter S. Beagle is considered to be one of the greatest fantasy writers of all time, and his masterpiece The Last Unicorn is hailed as a modern classic. Yet how many Davisites knew this future Hugo and Nebula Award-winner lived, for many years, among them? Another former Davis resident takes a peek into the life of Peter Beagle.
AB: You recently moved from Davis to Oakland. What time period did you live in Davis, and what prompted you to move to Oakland?
PSB: I lived in Davis from the beginning of 1991, when I moved down from the Seattle area, until December 2001, when I left for Oakland to help take care of my mother, who was 95 years old and not in the best of health.
AB: Did living in Davis inspire any of your work, and did you find the town conducive to writing?
PSB: As far as inspiration goes, I won't know until some time has passed. It seems to take me a while to decide how to use an experience...what Coleridge called "emotion reflected in tranquility" is necessary in order to find out how a place affected me, so I'm forever writing about various locales after I am no longer there. I only wrote my first fiction set in the Seattle area, for example, about nine years after |
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