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Originally Posted by John Carroll
It was my understanding that he got Xanth from his name: Piers Anthony. Take the 's' from Piers and the 'Anth' from Anthony and you get Santh, or when you say his full name out loud, it sounds like Xanth.
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As I remember it from his autobiography "Bio of an Ogre" he and his wife had looked at names for their daughter (either a miscarriage or stillborn I can'r recall which) early on in their marriage and he came across Xanthe then. It means yellow if I remember right. Actually Piers Anthony is only half his name. His full name is Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacobs.