Ann Chamberlin Author

Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Ann Chamberlin majored in Archaeology of the Middle East at the University of Utah. She spent a summer in Israel excavating the biblical city of Beersheva, traveling throughout the Holy Land. She has studied Hebrew, Arabic, Egyptian hieroglyphs and ancient Akkadian as well as English, French and German. Ann is the author of twenty published books, mostly historical novels, many set in the Middle East, including a trilogy published by Forge set in sixteenth- century Turkey. This trilogy, in translation, spent almost a year on the Turkish bestseller list. Her most recent publication is CLOGS AND SHAWLS, a memoir of her Yorkshire grandmother. She has also written many plays including JIHAD which won the best off-off Broadway new play of 1996 and which also received a production in Bogota, Colombia at a conference for theatre women for peace. She lives in an old farmhouse near Salt Lake City, except when she's in her bookshop at the Arizona Renaissance Festival. Or in Paris.