Margaret George
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Margaret George (born in 1943) is an American historian and historical novelist, writing historical biographies. She was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She lives with her husband in Madison, Wisconsin. She is the author of the bestselling novels The Autobiography of Henry VIII, Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles and The Memoirs of Cleopatra. The latter novel was adapted into a successful TV-movie starring Leonor Varela in the title role, Billy Zane as Mark Antony and Timothy Dalton as Julius Caesar. George is currently working on a novel about the life of Queen Elizabeth I during the later years of her reign, in the time of Shakespeare and the discovery of the New World, to be published in 2010. After the publication of her Elizabeth novel, George plans on writing a novel about Boudicca, highlighting Boudicca's conflict with Rome and Nero.
[edit] Novels
- The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers (1986)
- Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles (1992)
- The Memoirs of Cleopatra (1997)
- Mary, Called Magdalene (2002)
- Helen of Troy (2006)
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Interview between Margaret George and Kelly Hewitt of Loaded Questions in which she discusses a childhood abroad in Egypt due to her father's role in the foreign service, the research that was necessary for her newest book, Helen of Troy, and her next book about the later life of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
- Biography at Fantastic Fiction
