Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and raised in a family of Hungarian labor organizers, Steven Brust worked as a musician and a computer programmer before coming to prominence as a writer in 1983 with Jhereg, the first of his novels about Vlad Taltos, a human professional assassin in a world dominated by long-lived, magically-empowered human-like Dragaerans.
Over the next several years, several more Taltos novels followed, interspersed with other work, including
To Reign in Hell, a fantasy re-working of Milton’s war in Heaven;
The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars, a contemporary fantasy based on Hungarian folktales; and a science fiction novel,
Cowboy Feng’s Space Bar and Grille. The most recent Taltos novels are
Dragon and
Issola. In 1991, with
The Phoenix Guards, Brust began another series, set a thousand years earlier than the Taltos books; its sequels are
Five Hundred Years After and the three volumes of The Viscount of Adrilankha:
The Paths of the Dead, The Lord of Castle Black, and
Sethra Lavode.
While writing, Brust has continued to work as a musician, playing drums for the legendary band Cats Laughing and recording an album of his own work, A Rose for Iconoclastes. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada where he pursues an ongoing interest in stochastics.
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