Jeanne Kalogridis

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J.M. Dillard, Tampa, Florida "Star Trek" convention 1989.

Jeanne Kalogridis, also known by the pseudonym J.M. Dillard (born 1954) is an American writer of historical and horror fiction.

She was born in Florida and studied at the University of South Florida, earning first a BA in Russian and then an MA in Linguistics. After college she taught English as a foreign language at the American University in Washington, D.C., before moving to the West Coast where she now lives with her partner. Her interests include yoga, Tibetan Buddhism, the occult, languages, art and "reading everything ever published."

1 Bibliography of Works
2 References
3 External links

[edit] Bibliography of Works

Her earliest published novels form The Diaries of the Family Dracul. In reading order they are:

Covenant with the Vampire (1995)
Children of the Vampire (1996)
Lord of the Vampires (1997)

More recently she has turned to historical fiction, publishing The Burning Times (2002), the story of the Abbess Marie Françoise, a nun accused of heresy in the mid-14th century, and The Borgia Bride (2004), which focuses on the marriage of Sancha of Aragon into the notorious Borgia family in the 15th century. Her latest novel, I, Mona Lisa, addresses the mystery behind the famous painting, and the lives of Leonardo da Vinci and the de Medici family. It was released in October 2006.