J. Tullos Hennig

J. Tullos Hennig writes historical fantasy that revisits familiar legends through overlooked beliefs, loyalties, and social identities. Greenwode opens The Books of the Wode, a five-novel reimagining of the Robin Hood tradition set against conflict between older pagan practice and the expanding authority of the medieval church. The novel presents Rob and Gamelyn before their later legendary roles, grounding their bond in family obligations, class division, belief, and forces created by Norman rule. The sequence continues through Shirewode, Winterwode, Summerwode, and Wyldingwode. Hennig's version makes Marion Rob's sister and develops Guy of Gisbourne from Gamelyn, reorganizing relationships that many retellings treat as fixed. Reviews by the Historical Novel Society place Greenwode within historical fantasy and emphasize its twelfth-century setting. Hennig received the Speculative Literature Foundation's Older Writers Grant in 2018. Greenwode establishes the series by treating legend as a history still in formation, where personal choices gradually produce the identities remembered by later storytellers.