Peter S. Beagle wrote his first novel, A Fine and Private Place, a sweetly romantic ghost story, at the early age of nineteen. He quickly became known as a unique and extremely talented contemporary fantasist. Beagle has written screen plays in Hollywood, including animated versions of The Lord of the Rings and The Last Unicorn. His novel The Folk of the Air was published in 1986 and won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. The Innkeepeer's Song, published in 1993, is a dark and brooding work based on a song Beagle had written and performed in which three mysterious women arrive late one night at an inn, wreck the place, and run off with the stable boy, and won the Locus Award for the best fantasy novel of 1993. A young adult novel, The Unicorn Sonata was published in 1996 and Giant Bones appeared in 1997. His fable in which Death is invited to a party, "Come Lady Death" was elected by members of SFWA to the Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1998. Tamsin, the winner of the 1999 Mythopoeic Award, and A Dance for Emilia (2000) have since followed. One truly hopes that Beagle will continue reaching a wider audience, and creating the finely crafted works of fantasy that we've grown to cherish.

In 2007, Peter S. Beagle received the Hugo and Nebula Awards for "Two Hearts," an original novelette from The Line Between