Editing Lois McMaster Bujold (section)

==Biography==
[[File:Bujold2012.png|thumb|Bujold at [[Finncon]] 2012 in [[Tampere]]]]

Bujold is the daughter of [[Robert Charles McMaster]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dendarii.com/tribute.html |title=A Tribute to Robert Charles McMaster |website=Dendarii.com |access-date=2021-08-07 |archive-date=2020-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221123149/http://www.dendarii.com/tribute.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=1384&page=266 |title=Memorial Tributes: Volume 3 |chapter=Robert Charles McMaster |pages=266–271 |last=Jaffee |first=Robert I| year=1989 |doi=10.17226/1384 |isbn=978-0-309-03939-0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150727045810/http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=1384&page=266 |archive-date=2015-07-27 |url-status=live}}</ref> and attributes her early interest in science fiction, as well as certain aspects of the [[Vorkosigan Saga]], to his influence. He was editor of the ''Nondestructive Testing Handbook''.<ref name="NDThandbook">{{cite book | editor-last=MacMaster | editor-first=Robert C. | title=Nondestructive Testing Handbook | publisher=Amer Society for Nondestructive | orig-date=1959 | date=1986| isbn=978-0-318-21502-0}}</ref>

Bujold writes that her experience growing up with a famous father is reflected in the same experience that her characters (Miles, Fiametta) have of growing up in the shadow of a "[[Great Man theory|Great Man]]".  Having observed this tendency in both genders, she wonders why it is always called "great man's son syndrome", and never "great man's daughter's syndrome."<ref>{{cite book|last=Bujold|first=Lois Mcmaster|title=Young Miles|year=1997|publisher=BAEN|page=830}}</ref> Her brother, an engineer like their father, helped provide technical details to support her writing of ''[[Falling Free]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bujold |first=Lois McMaster |chapter=Foreword |title=Miles, Mutants and Microbes |type=omnibus edition |at=Paragraphs 11 & 13 |year=2007}}</ref>

She has stated that she was always a "voracious reader".<ref name="LMBbiolog">{{Cite web|url=http://dendarii.com/biolog.html|title=Lois McMaster Bujold, Biolog|website=dendarii.com|access-date=2019-03-10|archive-date=2019-03-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321130416/http://www.dendarii.com/biolog.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She started reading adult science fiction at the age of nine, picking up the habit from her father. She became a member of [[science fiction fandom]], joined the Central Ohio Science Fiction Society, and co-published ''StarDate'', a [[science fiction fanzine]] in which a story of hers appeared under the byline Lois McMaster. Her reading tastes later expanded and she stated she now reads "history, mysteries, romance, travel, war, poetry, etc".<ref name="LMBbiolog" />

She attended [[Ohio State University]] from 1968 to 1972. While she was interested in writing, she didn't pursue an English major, feeling it was too concerned with literary criticism instead of literary creation.<ref name="LMBbiolog" />

She married John Fredric Bujold in 1971, but they divorced in the early 1990s. The marriage produced two children, a daughter named Anne (born 1979) and a son named Paul (born 1981).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dendarii.com/locus.html |title=Locus Lois McMaster Bujold Biography |publisher=Dendarii.com |access-date=2014-01-28 |archive-date=2013-08-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130803145021/http://www.dendarii.com/locus.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Anne Bujold is currently (January 2020) Artist-In-Residence for the Metals Department at the Appalachian Center for Craft, a campus of [[Tennessee Technological University|Tennessee Tech]];<ref>{{cite web |url= https://annebujold.com/ |title= Anne Bujold |last= Bujold |first= Anne |date= 2019-12-26 |website= Rivited [sic] Rabbit Studio |publisher= Anne Bujold |access-date= 2020-03-26 |quote= Bujold is currently the Artist-In-Residence for the Metals Department at the Appalachian Center for Craft in Smithville, TN. |archive-date= 2020-03-26 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200326200145/https://annebujold.com/ |url-status= live }}</ref> formerly she was a metal artist and welder in Portland, Oregon<ref>{{cite web |url=https://craftedincarhartt.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/anne-the-riveter-and-her-riveted-rabbit/ |title=Ann the Riveter and her Riveted Rabbit |date=5 June 2014 |publisher=CraftedInCarhartt.com |access-date=2015-12-26 |archive-date=2015-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151130183459/https://craftedincarhartt.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/anne-the-riveter-and-her-riveted-rabbit/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and vice president of the Northwest Blacksmith Association.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blacksmith.org/wp-content/uploads/NWBADocs/2015-01-24-Board-Meeting-Minutes.pdf |work=Northwest Blacksmith Association |title=January 24, 2015 Regular Board Meeting Minutes |publisher=Northwest Blacksmith Association |date=2015-01-24 |access-date=2020-03-26 |quote=Anne Bujold was named Vice President. |archive-date=2020-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326193948/https://blacksmith.org/wp-content/uploads/NWBADocs/2015-01-24-Board-Meeting-Minutes.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Bujold currently lives in [[Minneapolis|Minneapolis, Minnesota]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spectrumliteraryagency.com/loismcmasterbujold|title=Spectrum Literary Agency - Lois McMaster Bujold|website=www.spectrumliteraryagency.com|publisher=Spectrum Literary Agency|access-date=2019-03-10|archive-date=2019-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190224031639/http://www.spectrumliteraryagency.com/bujold.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>