That same year, 'The Innkeeper's Song' won the Mythopoetic Fantasy Award. In 1987, Beagle's 'The Last Unicorn' was proclaimed the Number 5 All Time Fantasy Novel. Beagle has also written a script for Star Trek: The Next Generation and the screenplay for the animated feature version of The Lord of the Rings. His works have been translated into 15 languages. Beagle gives lectures and readings at universities, and also hosts writing workshops at schools such as the University of Washington and Clarion West. Beagle has published music as well as books, both his passions, and both lucrative.

In the 70's he began to write screenplays, as well as take up the hobby of singing folk songs at a local club. After his first few published stories, Beagle supported himself and his family as a freelancer for many years. When he returned, his new-found agent had enrolled him in a writing workshop at Stanford. At the age of 19, he published 'A Fine and Private Place.' Beagle graduated college with a degree in Creative Writing and a Spanish minor and then spent a year overseas. In his sophomore year at the University of Pittsburgh, Beagle entered another contest, winning first place again in Seventeen Magazine's Short Story Contest. He won that prize and went on to spend four years at the University of Pittsburgh after graduating from high school in 1955. During his senior year of high school, Beagle entered a poem and a short story in the 1955 Scholastic Writing Awards Contest, not knowing that the Grand Prize was a college education. Beagle was born in Manhattan in April of 1939.

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