![]() ![]() This is a readable, entertaining, tour de force that captures the essence of the Sixteenth Century, in all its drama and atmosphere. Margaret lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and Washington DC, and has a sextagenarian tortoise as a pet. An extraordinary novel that brings into vivid focus the larger-than-life King Henry VIII, monarch of prodigious appetites for wine, women, and song. Her newest one, THE CONFESSIONS OF YOUNG NERO, is coming out in March 2017. Her published works are: THE AUTOBIOGAPHY OF HENRY VIII, MARY QUEEN OF SCOTLAND AND THE ISLES, THE MEMOIRS OF CLEOPATRA, MARY CALLED MAGDALENE, HELEN OF TROY, ELIZABETH I, and an illustrated children’s book, LUCILLE LOST. She started writing ‘books’ about the same time as she could write at all, mainly for her own entertainment. Margaret’s father was in the Foreign Service and so she lived overseas for her early life, in such different places as tropical Taiwan, desert Israel, and cold war Berlin, all of which were great training for a novelist to be. All of her books have been bestsellers, with twenty-one foreign translations. ABC-TV based its 1999 Emmy-nominated “Cleopatra” miniseries on her THE MEMOIRS OF CLEOPATRA. Her THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HENRY VIII had its 30th anniversary this past September, and continues to be popular. Margaret George specializes in epic fictional biographies of historical figures, taking pains to make them as factually accurate as possible without compromising the drama. ![]()
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