Connie Willis

Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born 31 December 1945) is an America science fiction writer. She is one of the most honored science fiction writers of the 1980s and 1990s. She has won, among other awards, nine Hugo Award and six Nebula Award. Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for Inside Job (August 2006). She lives in Greeley, Colorado with her husband Courtney Willis, a professor of physics at the University of Northern Colorado. She also has one daughter, Cordelia. Willis is known for her accessible prose and likable characters. She has written several pieces involving time travel by history students and faculty of the future University of Oxford. These pieces include her Hugo Award-winning novels Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog and the short story "Fire Watch", found in the short story collection of the same name. She is currently working on another book set in this universe, All-Clear. Willis tends to the comedy of manners style of writing. Her protagonists are... full article at wikipedia