[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/licensed_image_7.jpeg]]
%%[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]]
Stephen R. Lawhead is an American writer based in the United Kingdom. He's written in a number of genres including Christian fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and Christian non-fiction help books. His particular focus is Celtic historical fiction. He is best known for ''Literature/ThePendragonCycle'', a retelling of the Myth/ArthurianLegend from a Celtic Christian perspective.

----
!!Works By This Author:

Adult Fiction Books

* ''Dragon King trilogy'':
** ''In the Hall of the Dragon King'' (1982)
** ''The Warlords of Nin'' (1983)
** ''The Sword and the Flame'' (1984)

* ''Empyrion Saga'':
** ''Empyrion I: The Search for Fierra'' (1985)
** ''Empyrion II: The Siege of Dome'' (1986)

* ''Literature/ThePendragonCycle'':
** ''Taliesin'' (1987)
** ''Merlin'' (1988)
** ''Arthur'' (1989)
** ''Pendragon'' (1994)
** ''Grail'' (1997)
** ''Avalon: The Return of King Arthur'' (1999) — a semi-sequel that serves as a DistantFinale set in the present day

* ''Literature/TheSongOfAlbion'':
** ''The Paradise War'' (1991) (Illustrated by Rodney Matthews, Daniel Horne in 1993, Anne Yvonne Gilbert in 1998, and Peter Holt in 2001)
** ''The Silver Hand'' (1992) (Illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert in 1998)
** ''The Endless Knot'' (1993) (Illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert in 1998)

* ''The Celtic Crusades'':
** ''The Iron Lance'' (1998)
** ''The Black Rood'' (2000)
** ''The Mystic Rose'' (2001)

* ''King Raven Trilogy'':
** ''Hood'' (2006)
** ''Scarlet'' (2007)
** ''Tuck'' (2009)

* ''Hero'' (With Ross Lawhead):
** ''City of Dreams'' (2003)
** ''Rogue Nation'' (unpublished)
** ''World Without End'' (unpublished)

* ''Bright Empires'':
** ''The Skin Map'' (2010)
** ''The Bone House'' (2011)
** ''The Spirit Well'' (2012)
** ''The Shadow Lamp'' (2013)
** ''The Fatal Tree'' (2014)

* ''Eirlandia'':
** ''In the Region of the Summer Stars'' (2018)
** ''In the Land of the Everliving'' (2019)
** ''In the Kingdom of All Tomorrows'' (2020)

* ''Dream Thief'' (1983)
* ''Byzantium'' (1996)
* ''Patrick: Son of Ireland'' (2003)

!!Tropes featured in his work:
* AuthorAppeal: Celtic themes appear in many of his works along with a focus on Christianity.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: Played straight in ''Literature/ThePendragonCycle'' due to the time period, but other works have focus on the conflict between the (Roman) Catholic and Celtic Christian traditions.[[https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2010/08/conundrum-of-stephen-lawhead-catholic.html This article]] discusses his use of Catholicism.
* {{Homage}}:
** His fantasy work ''The Song of Albion'' features a number of references and parallels to Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy, with the protagonist named after Creator/CSLewis and a minor villain named Weston. Both series feature the villain out to exploit another Edenic world.
** He includes {{Atlantis}} in his treatment of the Arthurian legends in ''The Pendragon Cycle'', and [[TheFairFolk his Atlanteans]] are basically pretty much Creator/JRRTolkien's High Elves in terms of appearance, spiritual power and longevity/immortality.
* SettingUpdate: The ''King Raven'' trilogy transports the Myth/RobinHood legend back in time to the aftermath of the Norman Conquest of England and the subsequent Norman invasion of Wales instead of the more common (in modern versions) Third Crusade, with the Robin figure being a minor Welsh king in his own right.
* TrilogyCreep: ''The Pendragon Cycle'' started off with the original trilogy of ''Taliesin'', ''Merlin'', and ''Arthur''. Then Lawhead went back and added in ''Pendragon'' and ''Grail'' as {{Interquel}}s set during ''Arthur''. Then he added in a loose sequel in ''Avalon'' to serve as DistantFinale a few years later.