Als er vier Jahre alt war, zog seine Familie mit ihm nach Spanien. 1940 flüchtete sie vor dem Bürgerkrieg und dem Franco-Regime in die USA, wo Piers Anthony seine weitere Kindheit verbrachte. 1956 schloss Piers Anthony die Schule (Goddard College, Vermont) ab und heiratete Carol Ann Marbel (kurz Cam). 1958 erlangte er nach dem Dienst in der U. S. Army die amerikanische Staatsbürgerschaft. Piers und Cam ließen sich nach seinem Kriegsdienst in Florida nieder.
Nach einigen Jobs als Lektor und Englischlehrer kündigte er und begann zu schreiben; seit dieser Zeit kürzte er aus praktischen Gründen auch seinen Namen. 1962 wurde seine erste Geschichte veröffentlicht. Sein erster Roman erschien fünf Jahre später. Der Durchbruch gelang Anthony mit den Romanen aus der magischen Welt Xanth. 1977 gewann der erste Roman der Serie den British Fantasy Award. Von Anthony sind mittlerweile weit über 100 Romane erschienen.
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Throughout the 2010s, numerous science fiction community sources published analyses and editorials describing Anthony's writings as sexist, misogynistic, and pedophilic. The treatment of women, particularly in the early Xanth series, came under scrutiny. In a piece for the website The AV Club, Jason Heller states that female characters in the books are treated "as obstacles, props, and objects of lust and condescension." Further criticism condemned Anthony's 1990 novel 'Firefly', which depicts a sexual relationship between an adult man and a five-year-old girl. The 1991 novel 'Tatham Mound' describes a culture in which women of any age can and do initiate sex.
Anthony has defended his work, saying that societal attitudes toward sex are different from culture to culture and that his work reflects those differences. When asked about his feelings about pedophilia, Anthony said:
"Am I attracted to young women? Yes; I am attracted to the entire female persuasion, and have women of every age in my fiction, and women of every age have sex in my fiction. The fact is, as I explore in my GEODYSSEY series, men are attracted to women, and to the shapely ones more than the others, and to the young ones more than the older ones. I don't mean to children, but to girls after they develop breasts and pubic hair, signals of sexual maturity. This relates to the apparent breedability of women; the strategy of the man is to capture a woman at the beginning of her reproductive life and have as many children by her as possible. So young women tend to be the most appealing; it's pretty much hard-wired in our species, and this is reflected in our society's glorification of youth in TV, movies, magazine, advertising--everywhere, as if it is a crime to ever get old. As a man who recently shared the 46th anniversary with the woman I married when she was 19, I deplore this global cultural attitude, but I understand it. To appreciate young women should not be to disparage older ones. And I do like to look at young women. Yes, my wife understands; once we were watching a video, and I needed to brush my teeth in the bathroom and missed a very nice nude-woman sequence with Bo Derrick, so she told me, wound it back, and played it over. It's like bird watching: one looks and appreciates but does not touch. I suspect that 90% of men who claim to feel otherwise are lying. (I'm allowing for the gay contingent.) This is reflected in my fiction in large part because it sells better than more realistic fiction, and publishers want it. But about membership in an anti-pedophelia organization--I do oppose pedophilia, but don't belong to any such outfit. In fact, I correspond with some pedophiles in prison." {wikipedia (deutsch + englisch), modifiziert}
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