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Old 02-23-2012, 09:32 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by crich70 View Post
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.
Ahh, okay. It's been years since I've read his work. I remember somebody telling me it was the other way, and I've never read the bio.
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