Sharan Newman is best known for her award-winning Catherine Levendeur medieval mystery series and her non-fiction books explaining The Da Vinci Code, the Templars and the end of the world. However she has a secret, more frivolous, side. She loves to also write fantasy stories. From silly to sad and from a California beach to a distant planet, these stories travel in time and space. Published over a twenty-year period in various anthologies and magazines, this is the first time they have been brought together in one collection.
About the author:
Sharan Newman is a medieval historian and author. She took her Master s degree in Medieval Literature at Michigan State University and then did her doctoral work at the University of California at Santa Barbara in Medieval Studies, specializing in twelfth-century France. She is a member of the Medieval Academy and the Medieval Association of the Pacific.
Rather than teach, Newman chose to use her education to write novels set in the Middle Ages, including three Arthurian fantasies and ten mysteries set in twelfth-century France, featuring Catherine LeVendeur, a one-time student of Heloise at the Paraclete; her husband, Edgar, an Anglo-Scot; and Solomon, a Jewish merchant of Paris. The books focus on the life of the bourgeoisie and minor nobility and also the uneasy relations between Christians and Jews at that time. They also incorporate events of the twelfth-century such as the Second Crusade and the rise of the Cathars.
The Catherine Levendeur mysteries have been nominated for many awards. Sharan won the Macavity Award for best first mystery for "Death Comes As Epiphany" and the Herodotus Award for best historical mystery of 1998 for "Cursed in the Blood". The most recent book in the series "The Witch in the Well" won the Bruce Alexander award for best Historical mystery of 2004.
Just for a change, her last novel, "The Shanghai Tunnel, "is set in Portland in 1868.
Newman has also written non-fiction books, including "The Real History of the End of the World" (Berkley 2010), "The Real History Behind the Templars" (Berkley 2007) and "Defending the City of God" (St. Martin's Press 2014).
She lives in the west coast of Ireland.
Genre: Fantasy
About the author:
Sharan Newman is a medieval historian and author. She took her Master s degree in Medieval Literature at Michigan State University and then did her doctoral work at the University of California at Santa Barbara in Medieval Studies, specializing in twelfth-century France. She is a member of the Medieval Academy and the Medieval Association of the Pacific.
Rather than teach, Newman chose to use her education to write novels set in the Middle Ages, including three Arthurian fantasies and ten mysteries set in twelfth-century France, featuring Catherine LeVendeur, a one-time student of Heloise at the Paraclete; her husband, Edgar, an Anglo-Scot; and Solomon, a Jewish merchant of Paris. The books focus on the life of the bourgeoisie and minor nobility and also the uneasy relations between Christians and Jews at that time. They also incorporate events of the twelfth-century such as the Second Crusade and the rise of the Cathars.
The Catherine Levendeur mysteries have been nominated for many awards. Sharan won the Macavity Award for best first mystery for "Death Comes As Epiphany" and the Herodotus Award for best historical mystery of 1998 for "Cursed in the Blood". The most recent book in the series "The Witch in the Well" won the Bruce Alexander award for best Historical mystery of 2004.
Just for a change, her last novel, "The Shanghai Tunnel, "is set in Portland in 1868.
Newman has also written non-fiction books, including "The Real History of the End of the World" (Berkley 2010), "The Real History Behind the Templars" (Berkley 2007) and "Defending the City of God" (St. Martin's Press 2014).
She lives in the west coast of Ireland.
Genre: Fantasy
Visitors also looked at these books
Used availability for Sharan Newman's The Golden Quest: Fantasy Stories