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Judith Leigh Schall married David Eddings on October 27, 1962. 

Leigh led a colourful life, flying in the Royal Air Force, and was a talented cook, fisherwoman and an excellent markswoman. While working at Boeing she met David Eddings. 

The pair began collaborating with authorship in David's career as a writer; he was always quick to point out she collaborated on all of the books after High Hunt, but apparently their publisher believed that multi-authorships were a problem, and that it would be better if David Edding's name alone appeared on the books, such as the ten volumes of the Belgariad and Mallorean

Leigh would finally appear as a co-author on Belgarath the Sorcerer in 1996 and on all of their work after that. Leigh's largest contribution reportedly was with female characters, if she felt that a woman would not behave or speak in the manner her husband had indicated, then the sections would be rewritten.

Starting about 2000, Leigh suffered a series of strokes, David and his mother-in-law cared for his wife in their Carson City home until her death seven years later. She was sixty-nine. Her husband published nothing more following her passing. David and Leigh Eddings were married for 45 years.

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