Leonard Paul Carpenter (born February 6, 1948) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction.
[1] Carpenter was born in 1948[1][2] in Chicago, but aside from a year in West Texas in childhood has lived most of his life in California.
Cheryl, a schoolteacher, retired in 2013 and died January 24, 2014, after a year-long fight with cancer.
[3] Among Carpenter's works are eleven Conan novels published by Tor Books.
Carpenter's writing has been published in the magazines Amazing Stories, Asimov's Science Fiction, Eldrich Tales, and 2AM, as well as the anthologies Dark Lessons (1985), L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume I (1985), The Year's Best Horror Stories XIV (1986), Horrorstory Volume 5 (1989), The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVII (1989), Short Sharp Shocks (1990), The Cthulhu Cycle (1996), Serve It Forth — Cooking With Anne McCaffrey (1996), L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XV (1999), and L. Ron Hubbard Presents the Best of Writers of the Future (2000).