Carolyn Meyer
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| Born: | 8 June 1935 Lewistown, Pennsylvania |
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| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Nationality: |  American |
| Writing period: | 1992-present |
| Genres: | Historical Fiction |
| Website: | http://www.readcarolyn.com/ |
Carolyn Meyer (b. 8 June 1935), is the author of numerous novels for children and young adults.
Typically, she writes historical fiction, one of her more popular projects being the Young Royals series, consisting of four books, each telling the story of one of the female monarchs of the English Tudor dynasty. Duchessina, the fifth installment in her Young Royals series — unique in the sense that it is taking place in Italy rather than England, and is not about the Tudors — focuses on the life of Catherine de' Medici, and will be released in June 2007. Her latest published work is Loving Will Shakespeare, the story of the childhood friendship and later romance between William Shakespeare, who would become one of the world's most famous playwrights, and Anne Hathaway, the farmer's daughter who would become his wife.
Carolyn Meyer is also now working on Playing with Mozart, a historical novel about Mozart and narrated by his older sister, Maria Anna Mozart, nicknamed Nannerl, expected to be released sometime in 2008.
Meyer's 2009 historical novel project is Dear Charley Darwin, amd will focus on the life of Charles Darwin, quite a leap from her usual subjects, for she has gone from royalty, to European artists, and now to scientists. Although, as per usual with Meyer, the narrator of the story will be a young woman, it is currently unknown through whose eyes the story will be told — possibly one of Darwin's four sisters, or his cousin and future wife, Emma Wedgwood.
Born as an only child in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, Carolyn Meyer began her first "novel," Humpy the Caterpillar and Gladys the Snail: A True Life Romance at age eight. However, she only came to finish three complete chapters.
Mother to Alan, John, and Chris, she now resides in a small town near Albuquerque, New Mexico.
[edit] Novels
- Where the Broken Heart Still Beats (1992)
- White Lilacs (1993)
- Rio Grande Stories (1994)
- Drummers of Jericho (1995)
- Gideon's People (1996)
- Jubilee Journey (1997)
- Mary, Bloody Mary (1999)
- Isabel: Jewel of Castilla (2000)
- Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess (2000)
- Beware, Princess Elizabeth (2001)
- Kristina: The Girl King (2003)
- Brown Eyes Blue (2003)
- Doomed Queen Anne (2004)
- Patience, Princess Catherine (2004)
- Marie, Dancing (2005)
- Loving Will Shakespeare (2006)
- Duchessina (2007)
- Playing with Mozart (2008)
- Dear Charley Darwin (2009)
