In this novel set at the turn of the century, two boys'one Orthodox Jew and the other Amish'are brought together by chance. 'Tony' Mares, a New Mexico poet, essayist and historian, and professor at the University of New Mexico, died January 30, 2015. Mother to three grown sons, she resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Before Darwin came In Mozart's Shadow, a historical novel about Mozart and narrated by his older sister, Maria Anna Mozart, nicknamed Nannerl, released in 2008.

The hardcover version of this book was published on January 26, 2009. The True Adventures of Charley Darwin is unusual in that it breaks from Meyer's formula of always having a female narrator, as Charley narrates his own story. Her previous published work was The True Adventures of Charley Darwin, focusing 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. Meyer's latest work published is Beauty's Daughter: The Story of Hermione and Helen of Troy, published October 2013. However, she completed only three chapters. One recent novel in the Young Royals is Victoria Rebels, which is about the teenage Princess Victoria of Kent and her budding relationship with Prince Albert of Germany.īorn June 8, 1935, as an only child in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, Meyer began her first 'novel,' Humpy the Caterpillar and Gladys the Snail: A True Life Romance at age eight. The typical genre for her work is historical fiction, one of her more popular projects being the Young Royals series, each novel of which tells the story of a different crown princess (duchess, in the case of Catherine de Medici, and lady, in the case of Anne Boleyn) of her home country either Egypt, England, Italy, Scotland, Austria and France.įor example, one of Carolyn Meyer's works is Duchessina, which is the story of the troubled childhood and young adulthood of the Italian duchess Catherine de' Medici up to her meeting with Crown Prince Henry of France. Carolyn Meyer (born June 8, 1935) is an American author of novels for children and young adults.

Gideon's People by Carolyn Meyer