https://tolkiengateway.net/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=205.162.239.70Tolkien Gateway - User contributions [en]2026-07-01T01:51:56ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.41.1https://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Karen_Wynn_Fonstad&diff=74877Karen Wynn Fonstad2009-01-08T16:55:39Z<p>205.162.239.70: /* Life */</p>
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| name=Karen Wynn Fonstad<br />
| born=[[April 18]], [[1945]]<br />
| died=[[March 11]], [[2005]]<br />
| education=University of Oklahoma<br />
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'''Karen Lea Wynn Fonstad''' ([[April 18]], [[1945]] – [[March 11]], [[2005]]) was the author of the popular ''[[The Atlas of Middle-earth|Atlas of Middle-earth]]''.<br />
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==Life==<br />
Karen Wynn was born and raised in Oklahoma, spending her later years in Wisconsin. She attended the [[wikipedia:University of Oklahoma|University of Oklahoma]], where she received a M.A. in Geography. Her speciality had been Cartography, and she would spend much of her life as a freelance cartographer. She has published several atlases of fantasy worlds, such as ''[[wikipedia:The Atlas of Pern|Pern]]'', ''[[wikipedia:The Atlas of the Land|the Land]]'' and ''[[Wikipedia:Atlas of the Dragonlance World|Krynn]]'', but is best known for ''[[The Atlas of Middle-earth]]''.<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* [[1981]]: ''[[The Atlas of Middle-earth]]'' (First edition)<br />
* [[1991]]: ''The Atlas of Middle-earth'' (Second edition)<br />
* [[2001]]: ''The Atlas of Middle-earth'' (Third edition)<br />
* [[2006]]: ''[[Tolkien Studies: Volume 3]]''<br />
** "Writing "TO" the Map"<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [[wikipedia:Karen Wynn Fonstad|Karen Wynn Fonstad]] at [[Wikipedia:Main Page|Wikipedia]]<br />
* [http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2005/03/12/24396-author-karen-wynn-fonstad-1945-2005-2/ Karen Wynn Fonstad Obituary] at [http://theonering.net TheOneRing.net]<br />
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