Karen Anderson

Born June Millichamp Kruse on September 16, 1932, Karen Anderson was an American writer who worked in fantasy and science fiction. Reliable catalog and memorial sources identify her life dates as 1932 to 2018 and note that she wrote fiction and essays under her own name.

She is especially associated with collaborative work with her husband, the celebrated science fiction author Poul Anderson, though she also published independently. Her writing appears to have grown out of a long involvement with the wider speculative fiction world, where she was known not just as a writer but as an active presence in the community.

Karen Anderson died on March 17, 2018. While detailed biographical information is not easy to confirm from the sources I found, the available records consistently present her as a respected American genre writer whose contributions, both solo and collaborative, remained part of science fiction and fantasy history.