About the Author:
Cecelia Holland has been writing since she was 12, and spends a good deal of every day writing. She chose to write historical fiction, because, being 12, she had precious few stories of her own, and history seemed to her then, as it still does, an endless fund of material.
She was encouraged to write by the poet William Meredith and the short story writer David Jackson. Her first novel was The Firedrake, and it was published by Atheneum in 1966. Since then, Cecelia has written a lot, read a lot, and raised three daughters. She lived in northern California, in the country. Once a week, she teaches creative writing at Pelican Baystate Prison in Crescent City, and, every day, she takes care of a small menagerie of little animals.
Review:
"Holland packs her pages with action and historical detail. She remains in the front rank of the genre, along with Mary Stewart, Dorothy Dunnett, and the late Mary Renault."--Chicago Sun-Times
In a field too often associated with paperback potboilers featuring wild-haired damsels with straining bodies, caught in rapturous mid-rape, Cecelia Holland's works are scrupulously researched, and are marked with an almost journalistic reserve and fidelity to the minutiae of everyday life."--The Baltimore Sun
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