“I once knew of a minstrel who bragged of having had a thousand women, one time each. He would never know what I knew, that to have one woman a thousand times, and each time find in her a different delight, is far better. I knew now what gleamed in the eyes of old couples when they stared at each other across a room...My familiarity with her was a more potent love elixir than any potion sold by a hedge-witch in the market.”

American speculative fiction writer

Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, known by the pen names Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm, is an American writer of speculative fiction. She is best known for her fantasy novels set in the Realm of the Elderlings, including the Farseer, Liveship Traders, Tawny Man, Rain Wild Chronicles, and Fitz and the Fool series. Writing as Megan Lindholm, she has also published urban fantasy and science fiction, including Wizard of the Pigeons and short stories. By 2018, her fiction had been translated into 22 languages and sold more than 4 million copies.