She wanted to have “an Englishwoman to play-off these Scotsmen”, although her main female character, Claire, slowly started taking over the story, and began telling it herself, with modern remarks and behavior. The character provided the inspiration for her main male character, James Fraser, and for her mid-18th century novels, with Scotland setting. The Doctor’s companion was from Scotland of the 1740s, and was a young man about 17 years old, whose name was Jamie McCrimmon. What inspired her was that she saw an episode of the TV series “Doctor Who” which was named “The War Games”. Because of her research skills, Gabaldon had thought that the easiest genre would be historical novel, although she wasn’t specialized in history, and at first she didn’t know for sure the time period. What made Diana Gabaldon write was just a pure desire to practice and to learn how, and she had no intention of showing it to anyone. During mid-1980s, she wrote software reviews and technical articles for computer publications, popular-science articles and comic books, as a freelancer, for the Walt Disney Company. Gabaldon has earned three degrees, a Bachelor Degree in Zoology, after attending Northern Arizona University (1970-1973) a Master Degree in Marine biology, from the University of California, in San Diego (1973-1975) and also a PhD in Behavioral ecology, also from Northern Arizona University (1975-1978).ĭuring the 1980s, Gabaldon was a full-time assistant professor at Arizona State University, in the Center for Environmental Studies, and she did research, worked as a scientific computing and database expert, and she had taught university classes in anatomy and other subjects. She is best known as a writer of historical fiction, speculative fiction, historical romance and historical mystery. She has been active as a writer since 1991, when she published her most known series, Outlander. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020ĭiana Gabaldon (in her full name Diana Jean Gabaldon Watkins) is an American writer, born on Januin Flagstaff, Arizona, where she also grew up, from a Mexican-American father (Tony Gabaldon, state senator from Arizona for sixteen years, later a supervisor at Coconino County), and English-American mother (Jacqueline Sykes). The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination The 14th Colony / Plan Zero (By:Steve Berry)Ĭhicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who
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