Robert Holdstock (edit name/settings)

Robert Holdstock was born in 1948 in Kent, England and died of a brief illness in the hospital in 2009.
He was first published in 1968 and had lived as a full-time writer since 1975.  His big breakthrough was in 1984 with the fantasy novel Mythago Wood, for which he won the World Fantasy Award. He didn't limit himself to fantasy but also wrote science fiction in various formats.
Although most of his writings was published under his real name, he also used different pseudonyms e.g. Robert Black and Chris Carlsen.

As he will remain renown for his  Mythagos Cycle  appropriate to quote here part of his comment on its "meaning" to him

"I have been ‘dreaming’ Ryhope ‘Mythago’ Wood for more than twenty years, now. I live at its edge, half asleep in reality. I write other things, journey elsewhere. But then I hear the sounding of a horn, or the howling of a hound. Someone or some thing steps out from the edge of the wood, and beckons to me. And once again, it’s time to wake up. Time to journey.

Those journeys are difficult, intriguing and always revealing. The writer never quite knows what he’s going to find there. All of legend is in Ryhope Wood, though often as fragments, briefly glimpsed in a glade, by a river, across a valley; most often from the corner of the eye, something half seen, which vanishes when it is gazed upon fully. All of legend: that which we remember, and most importantly: the vast amount that has been forgotten during time, because the tales faded from the oral tradition, the events, which had once burned in the story-tellers memory, have crumbled to ash.

But they are not forgotten. The wood itself remembers, and these ancient images of myth, these ‘myth-imagoes’, rise whenever a human mind becomes engaged with this oldest of woodlands.