By the time I completed White Rose I knew Shadow Games.

She insisted I do a trilogy in which the men of the Company would eventually show us that they were not irredeemably wicked. The editor who bought it was troubled by Black Company because she saw it as so different from all the Tolkien clones going around in those days. It was an evolutionary process beginning with the editing process for the first book. I wanted to write about guys that I knew and what I thought they'd be like under those kinda situations. One-Eye and Goblin if I'm completely honest about it, are slightly derivative of characters named Monk and Ham from the Doc Savage pulp novels of the 1930s, who are constantly squabbling and whatnot. I'll say that almost all the members of the Company that you see on stage during the first book are people I knew when I was in the service. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan Friday Jan 15, 2016) External link to podcast: Episode 264 (interview with guests Glen Cook and Steven Erikson by Gary K.Interviews with Black Company-related highlights 2016 on The Coode Street Podcast A list of these can be found at Wikipedia (external link). In addition to the Black Company series, Glen Cook has written and published a number of other long running series, as well as several standalone novels and short stories. He is currently retired and resides near St. He has three sons and numerous grandchildren. He was employed by General Motors for 33 years.

His 1985 novel A Matter of Time was a Prometheus Award Best Novel Nominee. He was one of the earliest graduates of the well-known Clarion Writer's Workshop in 1970, where he met his wife Carol. He next attended the University of Missouri. After graduating from high school he joined the United States Navy where he got much of his inspiration and distinctive voice for the Black Company series. He started writing short stories in 7th grade, and had several published in a high school literary magazine. Glen Cook was born in New York, lived in southern Indiana as a small child, and later grew up in northern California.

2.7 2002 February interview with Quantum Muse at Boskone 39.

2.6 2005 January interview with Strange Horizons.

2.4 2009 January interview with Pat's Fantasy Hotlist.

2.1.1 Inspirations for One-Eye and Goblin.

2 Interviews with Black Company-related highlights.

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