Biography
Sherrilyn Kenyon, known as Sherri, was born on 11 December 1965 in Columbus, Georgia, USA. She grew up in the middle of a very big family, she had eight brothers and one sister. Her father left the family when she was only eight, and her mother was forced to send her sons to live with family in Atlanta, Georgia, while she took care of her daughters, because Sherri's older sister, Trish, has severe cerebral palsy. After 18 months, the girls could moved to Atlanta with the rest of the family. At 20, Sherri was devastated when her brother Buddy died.
Sherri is is severely dyslexic, but even as a child Kenyon knew that she wanted to be a writer. In kindergarten, she wrote in her Brownie manual that she wanted to be a writer and a mother when she grew up. Her first recognition for her writing came when she won a contest in third grade by writing an essay about her mother for Mother's Day. At 7, she wrote and illustrated her first novel, a horror story about a girl who kills her brothers. At 14, she made her first professional sale, and continued to write for school newspapers, yearbooks, local papers and magazines throughout high school.
Sherri gained her "love of all things that go bump in the night" from her mother, who loved paranormal storylines and never censored what movies the young girl was allowed to watch with her. When, she was in high school, she started to writing fantasy stories for herself. When in the mid-1980s, she for a small science fiction magazine called Cutting Edge, her boss asked her to write a long-running serial for the magazine. She brought many of her favorite characters from her previous fantasies into one larger series. This was the start of the Hunter-Leyends world, which later became the Dark-Hunters, Were-Hunters and Dream-Hunters stories. Many of the first Dark-Hunter heroes first appeared in her teenager stories. In this series, she has created an entire universe, the rules of which are maintained solely in her head. The books focus on an ancient "Pyramid of Protection that the ancient Greek gods formed to protect the human race from supernatural predators and to protect the order of the universe."
Sherri graduated with an interdisciplinary major that combined Medieval History and language with Classical Studies, after dabbling in a total of twelve majors, she had enough credits to also earn minors in Philosophy, Psychology, and French, and to earn a certificate of Medieval Studies.
Sherri married very young, and the couple moved to Richmond, Virginia, where her husband continued to study. Meanwhile, she was unable to find a job of any kind before a childhood friend mentioned that the magazine she was editing needed several articles written. Only two years later she sold her first book, with five more sales coming quickly, and she won several awards and had high sell-throughs. Then everything collapsed. After the publication of her sixth novel she found herself unable to get a writing contract. Her father died in February 1995, and she was unable to work for a very difficult pregnancy and her baby spend six weeks in the neo-natal intensive care unit. Later the same year, her mother was diagnosed with cancer, and Sherri became pregnant again, having to be hospitalized for the majority of the time. Once her second baby was born and she was able to work again, she took a minimum wage job working as a web designer to help pay the bills, still writing at every spare moment, and she finished, Fantasy Lover, the manuscript that she had begun in the hospital. In 1997, she began dreaming up the details of a pirate novel. This book was very different from her previous works, so she chose to use a pseudonym, Kinley MacGregor, which is the maiden name of her great-grandmother. Finally she found a publisher interested in vampire romances and managed to sell their Hunters.
Sherrie loves the music an in her spare time, she plays the guitar, flute, piano, and the drums. She also is very interested in martial arts and sword-fighting. She even spent time as a sparring partner for a Golden Glove boxer and has a collection of swords, that everyone has a major fixation with. Her website is one of the most completes and interactives.
Married with three sons, Sherrie lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with her family and an assorted menagerie of pets.
Sherri is is severely dyslexic, but even as a child Kenyon knew that she wanted to be a writer. In kindergarten, she wrote in her Brownie manual that she wanted to be a writer and a mother when she grew up. Her first recognition for her writing came when she won a contest in third grade by writing an essay about her mother for Mother's Day. At 7, she wrote and illustrated her first novel, a horror story about a girl who kills her brothers. At 14, she made her first professional sale, and continued to write for school newspapers, yearbooks, local papers and magazines throughout high school.
Sherri gained her "love of all things that go bump in the night" from her mother, who loved paranormal storylines and never censored what movies the young girl was allowed to watch with her. When, she was in high school, she started to writing fantasy stories for herself. When in the mid-1980s, she for a small science fiction magazine called Cutting Edge, her boss asked her to write a long-running serial for the magazine. She brought many of her favorite characters from her previous fantasies into one larger series. This was the start of the Hunter-Leyends world, which later became the Dark-Hunters, Were-Hunters and Dream-Hunters stories. Many of the first Dark-Hunter heroes first appeared in her teenager stories. In this series, she has created an entire universe, the rules of which are maintained solely in her head. The books focus on an ancient "Pyramid of Protection that the ancient Greek gods formed to protect the human race from supernatural predators and to protect the order of the universe."
Sherri graduated with an interdisciplinary major that combined Medieval History and language with Classical Studies, after dabbling in a total of twelve majors, she had enough credits to also earn minors in Philosophy, Psychology, and French, and to earn a certificate of Medieval Studies.
Sherri married very young, and the couple moved to Richmond, Virginia, where her husband continued to study. Meanwhile, she was unable to find a job of any kind before a childhood friend mentioned that the magazine she was editing needed several articles written. Only two years later she sold her first book, with five more sales coming quickly, and she won several awards and had high sell-throughs. Then everything collapsed. After the publication of her sixth novel she found herself unable to get a writing contract. Her father died in February 1995, and she was unable to work for a very difficult pregnancy and her baby spend six weeks in the neo-natal intensive care unit. Later the same year, her mother was diagnosed with cancer, and Sherri became pregnant again, having to be hospitalized for the majority of the time. Once her second baby was born and she was able to work again, she took a minimum wage job working as a web designer to help pay the bills, still writing at every spare moment, and she finished, Fantasy Lover, the manuscript that she had begun in the hospital. In 1997, she began dreaming up the details of a pirate novel. This book was very different from her previous works, so she chose to use a pseudonym, Kinley MacGregor, which is the maiden name of her great-grandmother. Finally she found a publisher interested in vampire romances and managed to sell their Hunters.
Sherrie loves the music an in her spare time, she plays the guitar, flute, piano, and the drums. She also is very interested in martial arts and sword-fighting. She even spent time as a sparring partner for a Golden Glove boxer and has a collection of swords, that everyone has a major fixation with. Her website is one of the most completes and interactives.
Married with three sons, Sherrie lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with her family and an assorted menagerie of pets.
Books by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Acheron Styxx
Acheron Styxx
Acheron Styxx 3
Acheron Styxx 3
Acheron Styxx 4
Acheron Styxx 4
Acheron Styxx III
Acheron Styxx III
House of Fire and Magic
House of Fire and Magic
Gilded Glass
Return to Sanctuary
Shadow Fallen
Diary of a Nightmare in Willia
Diary of a Nightmare in Williamson County
Hex Life
Julian of Macedon
Death Doesn't Bargain: A Deadman's Cross Novel
Menyon Coloring Book
Silent Swans 1
Silent Swans 1
Untitled Dream-Hunter 6 : Dark
Untitled Dream-Hunter 6 : Dark-Hunter World
B. A. D. Mission
B. A. D. Mission
Bad Attitude Lib/E
Born of Blood (The League: Nemesis Rising)
El juramento del dragón
Fearless Women Fall Sampler
Fearless Women Fall Sampler
Silent Truth Lib/E
Stygian (The Dark-Hunter World)
Born of Legend (League)
Born of Vengeance (League)
Dark-Hunter Ultimate Coloring
Dark-Hunter Ultimate Coloring Book
Deadmen Walking: A Deadman's Cross Novel
Deadmen Walking: Dark-Hunter: Deadman's Cross
Dragonsworn
Dragonsworn (Dark-Hunter)
Dragonsworn (The Dark-Hunter World)
Dragonsworn: A Dark-Hunter Novel (Dark-Hunter Novels)
Gece Yaşayanlar (Dark-Hunter,
Gece Yaşayanlar (Dark-Hunter, #2)
Insurrection: Witch of Endor (Nevermore/Witch of Endor Nevermore / Witch of Endor)
Intensity (Chronicles of Nick)
Intensity (Dark-Hunters: Chronicles of Nick)
Invision: Chronicles of Nick
The Simi's ABCs: Adventures with Dark-Hunters
Unleash the Night (Dark-Hunter Novels)
Born of Betrayal
Born of Betrayal
Born of Betrayal (League)
Born of Legend
Born of Legend : The League
Born of Legend : The League
Born of Legend HB
Born of Legend HB
Born of Legend: The League: Nemesis Rising
Chronicles of Nick, Books 1-3
Chronicles of Nick, Books 1-3
Dark-Hunter Coloring Book 01
Dragonmark
Dragonmark (The Dark-Hunter World)
Dragonmark: A Dark-Hunter Novel (Dark-Hunter Novels Book 25)
El estigma del dragón
Hard Day's Night Searcher
Hard Day's Night Searcher
Invision
League : Nemesis Rising, Books
League : Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3
Until Death We Do Part
Until Death We Do Part
Born of Betrayal : The League
Born of Betrayal : The League
Born of Betrayal C
Born of Betrayal C
Born of Betrayal: The League: Nemesis Rising
Born of Defiance
Born of Defiance : The League
Born of Defiance: The League: Nemesis Rising
Born of Fury : The League
Born of Fury: Number 6 in series (League)
Coalición de sangre
Dragonbane
Gecenin Öpücügü
Hijo de nadie
Illusion: Chronicles of Nick
Instinct: Chronicles of Nick (Chronicles of Nick Book 6)
Maldición de sangre
Son of No One
Süße Verdammnis
Winter's Night
Winter's Night
Born of Fury
Born of Fury: The League: Nemesis Rising
Dangerous Women 3
Dark Bites
Dark hunter collection
Dark hunter collection
Lealtad de sangre
Night Play (Dark-Hunter Novels)
Seytanla Dans
Trinidad de sangre
Verdad silenciada
Cloak & Silence
Dark-Hunters - Infinity,
Dark-Hunters (the Collection T
Dark-Hunters (the Collection Thus Far)
Dark-Hunters, Books 1-3 : (Nig
Dark-Hunters, Books 1-3 : (Night Pleasures, Night Embrace, Dance with the Devil)
Dark-Hunters, Books 10-12 : (t
Dark-Hunters, Books 10-12 : (the Dream-Hunter, Devil May Cry, upon the Midnight Clear)
Dark-Hunters, Books 13-15 : (D
Dark-Hunters, Books 13-15 : (Dream Chaser, Acheron, One Silent Night)
Dark-Hunters, Books 16-18 : (D
Dark-Hunters, Books 16-18 : (Dream Warrior, Bad Moon Rising, No Mercy)
Dark-Hunters, Books 19-21 : (R
Dark-Hunters, Books 19-21 : (Retribution, the Guardian, Time Untime)
Dark-Hunters, Books 4-6 : (Kis
Dark-Hunters, Books 4-6 : (Kiss of the Night, Night Play, Seize the Night)
Dark-Hunters, Books 7-9 : (Sin
Dark-Hunters, Books 7-9 : (Sins of the Night, Unleash the Night, Dark Side of the Moon)
Infamous: Chronicles of Nick
Inferno: Chronicles of Nick
Infinity The Manga
Karanlik Tutkular
L'astre des ténèbres (Le cercl
L'astre des ténèbres (Le cercle des immortels, #18)
La Liga. Hijo de las sombras
La Liga. Hijo del hielo
Les chroniques de Nick
Rise of the Gryphon
Styxx
Styxx (Dark-Hunter Novels)
Time Untime (Dark-Hunter Novels)
À Solta na Noite O Predador da Noite - Vol. 9
Blood Lite Iii Aftertaste An Anthology Of Humorous Horror Stories
Born of shadows
Born of Silence
League
Born of Silence
Born of Silence (The League)
La Liga. Hijo de la noche
La Liga. Hijo del fuego
Le cercle des immortels, Tome
Le cercle des immortels, Tome 11
Le Traqueur De Reves/Le Cercle
Le Traqueur De Reves/Le Cercle DES Immortels 3 (French Edition)
Mentiras Susurradas
Nick Gunlukleri Sonsuzluk
O Caçador de Sonhos O Predador da Noite - Vol. 11
O Lado Negro da Lua O Predador da Noite - Vol. 10
One Silent Night (The Dark-Hunter World)
Time untime
Alterant
Ask Kolesi
Blood trinity
Dream Chaser
DreamHunter Novels
El cazador de suenos / The Dre
El cazador de suenos / The Dream Hunter (Spanish Edition)
El diablo puede llorar
El fantasma de la noche
Guardian Bk. 19
Guardian Bk. 19
Infinity: Chronicles of Nick
Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick (Chronicles of Nick Book 2)
Jogos na Noite O Predador da Noite - Vol. 6
Miecz ciemności
Pecados na Noite
Sedução na noite
Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Lo
Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love - a B. A. D. Collection
Sherrilyn Kenyon Audio Coffin Box Set
The Dreamhunter
Upon the Midnight Clear
Atrapando un sueño
Atrapando un sueño
Blood Trinity (Belador #1)
Cercle Immortels / Dream Hunte
Cercle Immortels / Dream Hunters - 1 - C
Dança com o Diabo O Predador da Noite - Vol. 4
Deadly Promises
In Other Worlds (Were-Hunter)
Infinity: Chronicles of Nick (Chronicles of Nick Book 1)
Kenyon Dark-Hunter Boxed Set
La cara oscura de la luna
La fille du shaman
Le cercle des immortels, Tome
Le cercle des immortels, Tome 2 (French Edition)
Le cercle des immortels, Tome
Le cercle des immortels, Tome 4 (French Edition)
Lune noire
Péchés nocturnes
Placeres de la noche / Night P
Placeres de la noche / Night Pleasures (Spanish Edition)
Stroke of Midnight (Were-Hunter)
The Dark Hunters
The Dark Hunters 2.
Writer's Digest Character Nami
Writer's Digest Character Naming Sourcebook
Amante de Sonho
Blood Lite
Born of Fire : The League
Born of Ice (League, No 3)
Born of Night
Born of Night : The League
Born of Night (A League Novel)
Desnuda la noche
Disfruta de la noche / Seize the Night (Spanish Edition)
Lords of Avalon: Knight of Darkness
The Dark-Hunters, Vol. 1
Whispered Lies
Actitud provocadora
Amor al primer mordisco
Dead after Dark
Devil May Cry (Dark-Hunter, Book 11)
L'homme maudit
Le Cercle des Immortels - Tome 9
Le cercle des immortels, Tome
Le cercle des immortels, Tome 8
Lords of Avalon: Sword of Darkness
Not That Innocent
One Silent Night (A Dark-Hunter Novel)
Phantom in the Night
Phantom in the Night (Bureau of American Defense - B.A.D., Book 6)
Bailando con el diablo/ Dance with the Devil
Dark Side of the Moon (Dark-Hunter Novels Book 9)
Devil May Cry (A Dark-Hunter Novel, Book 11)
Le cercle des immortels, Tome 6
The Dark Hunter Companion
The Dream-Hunter (A Dream-Hunter Novel, Book 1)
Upon The Midnight Clear (A Dream-Hunter Novel, Book 2)
Dark Side of the Moon (A Dark-Hunter Novel, Book 10)
Dark Side of the Moon (A Dark-Hunter Novel)
Dark Side of the Moon (Dark-Hunter Novel)
Dark Side of the Moon BK. 10
Dark Side of the Moon BK. 10
El Abrazo De La Noche
Fantasy Lover (Dark-Hunter, Prequel)
La descendante d'Apollon
Le cercle des immortels, Tome
Le cercle des immortels, Tome 3
My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding
Placeres De La Noche/ Pleasure
Placeres De La Noche/ Pleasures of the Night
Playing easy to get
The Sherrilyn Kenyon Dark-Hunter Boxed Set, No. 1
Unleash the Night
Big guns out of uniform
Born to be bad
Cercle des immortels - t2 les demons de kyrian
Dance with the Devil (A Dark Hunter Novel, Book 4)
Dance with the Devil (Dark Hunter)
Dark-Hunter Collectible Catalog
Dragonswan
Kiss of the Night (A Dark Hunter Novel, Book 5)
La marca del dragón
Night Embrace (A Dark-Hunter Novel, Book 3)
Night Play (A Dark-Hunter Novel, Book 6)
Night Pleasures/Night Embrace
Night Pleasures/Night Embrace
Night Pleasures/Night Embrace (Dark-Hunter Novels Books 2 and 3)
Seize the Night (A Dark-Hunter Novel, Book 7)
Sins of the night
Sins of the Night (A Dark Hunter Novel, Book 8)
The Writer's Digest character naming sourcebook
Unleash the Night (A Dark-Hunter Novel, Book 9)
Kiss of the Night
Man of My Dreams Four All-New
Man of My Dreams Four All-New Sensuous Stories of Fantasies Come To Life
Born of Rage
Night embrace
Fantasy Lover
Night pleasures (A Dark Hunter Novel, Book #1)
Night Pleasures (A Dark-Hunter Novel, Book 2)
Midnight Pleasures
Daemon's Angel
Intensity
The writer's guide to everyday life in the Middle Ages
Dance With the Devil
In Other Worlds
Tiempo sin tiempo
The Darkhunters
Born of Trouble
Born of Trouble
Dark Bites (The Dark-Hunter World)
Deadmen Walking
El abrazo de la noche/ Night E
El abrazo de la noche/ Night Embrace
New Anne Fine Author Poster
New Anne Fine Author Poster
Placeres de la noche/ Night Pleasures
Un amante de ensueno/ Fantasy Lover