Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay (born November 7, 1954) is a Canadian writer of fantasy fiction. The majority of his novels take place in fictional settings that resemble real places during real historical periods, such as Constantinople during the reign of Justinian I or Spain during the time of El Cid. Kay has expressed a preference to avoid genre categorization of these works as historical fantasy. , Kay has published 14 novels and a book of poetry. , his fiction has been translated into more than 30 languages.
Biography.
Kay was born in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
When Christopher Tolkien needed an assistant to edit his father J. R. R. Tolkien's unpublished work, he chose Kay, then a student of philosophy at the University of Manitoba. Kay moved to Oxford in 1974 to assist Tolkien in editing "The Silmarillion".
He returned to Canada in 1975 to take a law degree at the University of Toronto. He was called to the bar of Ontario in 1981.
Kay became principal writer and an associate producer for a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio series, "The Scales of Justice," and continued as principal writer when the series went to television.
In 1984, Kay's first fantasy work, "The Summer Tree", the first volume of the trilogy "The Fionavar Tapestry", was published.