Fallowing graduating from either Bedford High School in Bedford, MA, he attended Princeton University but left without the degree. He began to seriously try to sell his writing within the period of the break in his college career, however sold nothing important until he produced The Lure of the Basilisk in 1978 (published 1980) and with that began writing fully instance. He at foremost marketed his function under more list; it was a editor of his first novel, Lester Del Rey, who 1st demanded he utilise his very title so created the anonym Lawrence Watt-Evans. Evans experienced insisted in including his middle title to keep away from confusion sustaining the coeval non-nonfictional prose writer likewise known as Lawrence Evans, and del Rey experienced so added a dash "to make it more distinctive," thereby relegating Watt-Evans to the bottom shelves inside alphabetically-intended bookstall.

Watt-Evans was president of the Horror Writers of America from 1994 to 1996, & hwhen likewise served as Eastern Regional Director and financial officer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Inside April of 2005, Watt-Evans announced that his latest novel, A Spriggan Mirror, would become processed available free of charge in the internet on the chapter-by-chapter basis, applying the limited version of the Street Performer Protocol.

Works

The Lords of Dus series: The Lure of the Basilisk The Seven Altars of Dusarra The Sword of Bheleu The Book of Silence

A Worlds of Shadow series:

Out of This World In the Empire of Shadow The Reign of the Brown Magician

A Obsidian History:

Dragon Weather The Dragon Society Dragon Venom

A Legends of Ethshar series:

The Misenchanted Sword, (1985) With a Single Spell The Unwilling Warlord The Blood of a Dragon Taking Flight The Spell of the Black Dagger Night of Madness ''Ithanalin's Restoration The Spriggan Mirror (Currently existence serialized in the internet)

A War Surplus series:

The Cyborg and the Sorcerers The Wizard and the War Machine

& a single horror novel:

The Nightmare People

More science fiction novels:

The Chromosomal Code Shining Steel Denner's Wreck Nightside City

More fantasy novels:

The Rebirth of Wonder Split Heirs (in collaboration by owning Esther Friesner) Touched by the Gods

Short story collections:

Crosstime Traffic Ethereal Debris

Anthologies edited:

Newer York

He has likewise written to a higher degree a hundred short stories (a bit of under the nom de guerre Nathan Archer''), including "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers," which won a Hugo Award for Best Short Story within 1988.