“In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.”

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.