Editing Marion Zimmer Bradley (section)

== Personal life ==

Born Marion Eleanor Zimmer on June 3, 1930, she lived on a farm in [[Albany, New York]], and began writing at the age of 17.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/29/books/marion-zimmer-bradley-69-writer-of-darkover-fantasies.html?pagewanted=1 |title=Marion Zimmer Bradley, 69, Writer of Darkover Fantasies |date=29 September 1999 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=2018-09-24}}</ref> She was married to Robert Alden Bradley from October 26, 1949, until their divorce on May 19, 1964. They had a son, David Robert Bradley (1950–2008). During the 1950s she was introduced to [[lesbian]] advocacy organization the [[Daughters of Bilitis]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Passet |first=Joanne |chapter=Chapter Two: Becoming Gene Damon |title=Indomitable: The Life of Barbara Grier |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ucCwDgAAQBAJ |date=2016-11-01 |publisher=Bella Books |isbn=978-1594936647}}</ref>

After her divorce, Bradley married [[numismatist]] [[Walter H. Breen]] on June 3, 1964. They had a daughter, Moira Greyland, who is a professional [[harpist]] and singer,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.moiragreyland.net/ |title=Moira Greyland |website=Moira Greyland |access-date=2018-09-25}}</ref> and a son, Mark Greyland.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://starfire-studio.com/markgreyland.html |title=Secret Keeper No More: An Interview With Mark Greyland |date=2014-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221115834/http://starfire-studio.com/markgreyland.html |archive-date=21 December 2014 |url-status=dead |access-date=2018-09-25}}</ref> Moira's son, RJ Stern, is a college football player who was featured on season 5 of ''[[Last Chance U]]'' on [[Netflix]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://medium.com/sportsraid/last-chance-u-underdog-rj-stern-on-what-his-future-holds-c6bd28c9581 |title=Netflix's Last Chance U Underdog RJ Stern Discusses Football and What His Future Holds |last1=Martin |first1=Andrew |publisher=[[Medium (website) |Medium]] |date=September 7, 2020 |access-date=November 21, 2020}}</ref>

In 1965, Bradley graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree from [[Hardin-Simmons University]] in [[Abilene, Texas]]. Afterward, she moved to [[Berkeley, California]], to pursue graduate studies at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] between 1965 and 1967. In 1966, with her brother [[Paul Edwin Zimmer]], she helped found and name the [[Society for Creative Anachronism]] and was involved in developing several local groups, some in New York after her move to [[Staten Island]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Paxson |first=Diana L. |author-link=Diana L. Paxson |date=Winter 1999 |title=The Priestess of Avalon: A Memoir of Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999) |url=https://avalonbooks.net/about-authors/the-priestess-of-avalon/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926014440/https://avalonbooks.net/about-authors/the-priestess-of-avalon/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=September 26, 2018 |journal=Sagewoman}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Paxon |first=Diana L. |author-link=Diana L. Paxson |date=Spring 1999 |title=Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Mists of 'Avalon' |journal=Arthuriana |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=111–126 |jstor=27869424}}</ref> In particular, she and Breen founded and served as the first directors for the Kingdom of the East.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kingdom Seneschal - EastKingdomWiki |url=https://wiki.eastkingdom.org/wiki/Kingdom_Seneschal |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=wiki.eastkingdom.org}}</ref>

Bradley and Breen separated in 1979 but remained married. They also continued a business relationship and lived on the same street for over a decade. They officially divorced on May 9, 1990, the year Breen was arrested on [[child molestation]] charges after a 13-year-old boy reported that Breen had been molesting him for four years.<ref>{{cite news | author=Serrano, Richard A. | date=October 3, 1991 | url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61504546.html?dids=61504546:61504546&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+03%2C+1991&author=RICHARD+A.+SERRANO&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Rare+Coins+Expert+Charged+With+Child+Molestation&pqatl=google | title=Rare Coins Expert Charged With Child Molestation | work=[[Los Angeles Times]] | access-date=December 5, 2008 | archive-date=October 18, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018034238/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61504546.html?dids=61504546:61504546&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+03,+1991&author=RICHARD+A.+SERRANO&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Rare+Coins+Expert+Charged+With+Child+Molestation&pqatl=google | url-status=dead }}</ref> She had edited Breen's book ''Greek Love'' (published pseudonymously), which was dedicated to her (named simply as "[his] wife"), and in 1965 had contributed an article, "Feminine Equivalents of Greek Love in Modern Literature", to Breen's journal ''The International Journal of Greek Love''.<ref name="(John)Phd20142">{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V7nKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA321 |title=Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context |last=Mader |first=Donald |publisher=Routledge |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-317-76628-5 |editor-last=Bullough |editor-first=Vern L. |pages=312–321 |chapter=Walter H. Breen}}</ref><ref name="greeklove">{{cite journal |title=Feminine equivalents of Greek love in modern fiction |journal=International Journal of Greek Love |year=1965 |last=Zimmer Bradley |first=Marion |author-link=Marion Zimmer Bradley |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=48–58 |quote=Tragic denouements in such fiction, when they happen at all, arise either when the older woman fears or rejects such relationships, or when outsiders misunderstand them and break up the affairs, such as in actual cases of either gender.}}</ref> She allegedly was told of Breen's abuse of a minor by her secretary and "she was extremely upset" and immediately divorced him.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.xtra.ca/public/Vancouver/For_the_love_of_coins_past_lives_and_boys-2673.aspx |title=For the love of coins, past lives and boys |last=Rothon |first=Robert |date=February 17, 2007 |website=[[Xtra!]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100119075217/http://www.xtra.ca/public/Vancouver/For_the_love_of_coins_past_lives_and_boys-2673.aspx |archive-date=19 January 2010 |access-date=January 19, 2010}}</ref>