Michelle Moran

Last updated

Michelle Moran
AuthorMichelleMoran.jpg
Michelle Moran with a copy of her fifth book, The Second Empress
Born (1980-08-11) August 11, 1980 (age 43)
San Fernando Valley, California, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
Genre Historical novel
Website
www.michellemoran.com

Michelle Moran (born August 11, 1980) is an American novelist known for her historical fiction writing. [1]

Contents

Biography

Michelle Moran was born in California's San Fernando Valley, August 11, 1980. She took an interest in writing from an early age, purchasing Writer's Market and submitting her stories and novellas to publishers from the time she was twelve. She majored in literature at Pomona College. Following a summer in Israel where she worked as a volunteer archaeologist, she earned an MA from the Claremont Graduate University.

Her experiences at archaeological sites were what inspired her to write historical fiction. A public high school teacher for six years, Moran is currently a full-time writer living in California.[ citation needed ]

Moran is the author of the national bestselling historical fiction novels Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen, and Cleopatra's Daughter. [2] Her fourth book, Madame Tussaud, was optioned by Gaumont for a miniseries in 2011. Michael Hirst is writing the script. [3] Her fifth book, "The Second Empress," explores the lives of the women in Napoleon Bonaparte's world. Her sixth book, Rebel Queen, is set in India and talks about the queen Lakshmibai of Jhansi. Her latest book is "Mata Hari's Last Dance."

Bibliography

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mata Hari</span> Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and spy (1876–1917)

Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod, better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. She was executed by firing squad in France. The idea of a beautiful exotic dancer using her powers of seduction as a spy made her name synonymous with the femme fatale. Her story has served as an inspiration for many books, films, and other works.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hortense de Beauharnais</span> Queen consort of Holland from 1806 to 1810

Hortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte was Queen consort of Holland. She was the stepdaughter of Emperor Napoléon I as the daughter of his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. Hortense later married Napoléon I’s brother, Louis Bonaparte, who had been made King of Holland, making her her stepfather’s sister-in-law. She was the mother of Napoléon III, Emperor of the French; Louis II of Holland; and Napoléon Louis Charles Bonaparte who died at the age of four. She also had an illegitimate son, Charles, Duke of Morny, with her lover, the Comte de Flahaut.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joséphine de Beauharnais</span> Empress of the French from 1804 to 1810

Joséphine Bonaparte was Empress of the French as the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I from 18 May 1804 until their marriage was annulled on 10 January 1810. As Napoleon's consort, she was also Queen of Italy from 26 May 1805 until the 1810 annulment. She is widely known as Joséphine de Beauharnais.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Amarna</span> 1346–1332 BC capital of Ancient Egypt under Akhenaten

Amarna is an extensive Egyptian archaeological site containing the remains of what was the capital city of the late Eighteenth Dynasty. The city was established in 1346 BC, built at the direction of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, and abandoned shortly after his death in 1332 BC. The name that the ancient Egyptians used for the city is transliterated as Akhetaten or Akhetaton, meaning "the horizon of the Aten".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Madame Tussauds</span> Wax museum in London

Madame Tussauds is a wax museum founded in 1835 by French wax sculptor Marie Tussaud in London, spawning similar museums in major cities around the world. While it used to be spelled as "Madame Tussaud's", the apostrophe is no longer used.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rani of Jhansi</span> Queen of Jhansi

Lakshmibai Newalkar, the Rani of Jhansi, was the Maharani consort of the princely state of Jhansi in Maratha Empire from 1843 to 1853 by marriage to Maharaja Gangadhar Rao Newalkar. She was one of the leading figures in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, who became a national hero and symbol of resistance to the British rule in India for Indian nationalists.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Julie Clary</span> Comtesse de Survilliers

Marie Julie Clary, was Queen of Naples, then of Spain and the Indies, as the wife of Joseph Bonaparte, who was King of Naples from January 1806 to June 1808, and later King of Spain and the Spanish West Indies from 25 June 1808 to June 1813.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Désirée Clary</span> Queen consort of Sweden and Norway

Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary was Queen of Sweden and Norway from 5 February 1818 to 8 March 1844 as the wife of King Charles XIV John. Charles John was a French general and founder of the House of Bernadotte. Désirée Clary, the mother of Oscar I, was the one-time fiancée of Napoleon Bonaparte. Her name was officially changed in Sweden to Desideria although she did not use that name.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marie-Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême</span> Madame Royale (1778–1851)

Marie-Thérèse Charlotte was the eldest child of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France, and their only child to reach adulthood. In 1799 she married her cousin Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, the eldest son of Charles, Count of Artois, henceforth becoming the Duchess of Angoulême. She was briefly Queen of France in 1830.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cleopatra Selene II</span> Queen consort of Mauretania, 25 to 5 BC

Cleopatra Selene II was a Ptolemaic princess, Queen of Numidia and Mauretania and Queen of Cyrenaica. She was an important royal woman in the early Augustan age.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Caroline Bonaparte</span> Princess Murat

Carolina Maria Annunziata Bonaparte, better known as Caroline Bonaparte, was an Imperial French princess; the seventh child and third daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino, and a younger sister of Napoleon I of France. She was queen of Naples during the reign of her spouse there, and regent of Naples during his absence four times: in 1812–1813, 1813, 1814, and 1815.

A parvenu is a person who is a relative newcomer to a high-ranking socioeconomic class. The word is borrowed from the French language; it is the past participle of the verb parvenir.

Gillian Marucha Bradshaw is an American writer of historical fiction, historical fantasy, children's literature, science fiction, and contemporary science-based novels, who lives in Britain. Her serious historical novels are often set in classical antiquity — Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Byzantine Empire, Saka and the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Imperial Rome, Sub-Roman Britain and Roman Britain. She has also written two novels set in the English Civil War.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mutnedjmet</span> Queen consort of Egypt

Mutnedjmet, also spelled Mutnodjmet, Mutnedjemet, etc., was an ancient Egyptian queen, the Great Royal Wife of Horemheb, the last ruler of the 18th Dynasty. The name, Mutnedjmet, translates as: "The sweet Mut" or "Mut is sweet."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Margaret George</span> American historical novelist

Margaret George is an American historical novelist specializing in epic fictional biographies. She is known for her meticulous research and the large scale of her books. She is the author of the bestselling novels The Autobiography of Henry VIII (1986), Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles (1992), The Memoirs of Cleopatra (1997), Mary, Called Magdalene (2002), Helen of Troy (2006), Elizabeth I (2011), The Confessions of Young Nero (2017), and The Splendor Before the Dark (2018).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">L. Adams Beck</span> British writer

Lily Adams Beck, née Elizabeth Louisa Moresby was a British writer of short stories, novels, biographies and esoteric books, under the names of L. Adams Beck, E. Barrington and Louis Moresby, and sometimes other variations: Lily Adams Beck, Elizabeth Louisa Beck, Eliza Louisa Moresby Beck and Lily Moresby Adams.

<i>Désirée</i> (film) 1954 film by Henry Koster

Désirée is a 1954 American historical romance film directed by Henry Koster and produced by Julian Blaustein from a screenplay by Daniel Taradash, based on the best-selling novel Désirée by Annemarie Selinko. The music score was by Alex North and the cinematography by Milton R. Krasner. The film was made in CinemaScope.

<i>The Pearls of the Crown</i> 1937 film by Christian-Jaque, Sacha Guitry

The Pearls of the Crown is a 1937 French comedy film of historically based fiction by Sacha Guitry who plays four roles in it. Guitry's Jean Martin investigates the history of seven pearls, four of which end up on the crown of England, while the other three initially go missing.

Frances Sanger Mossiker was an American writer best known for her historical novels. Her works include Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend, The Queen's Necklace, and Madame de Sevigne. Mossiker did not have her writing published until the age of fifty five.

The 12th-century ruler Empress Matilda has been depicted in various cultural media.

References

  1. "Moran, Michelle". Encyclopedia.com . Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  2. "Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
  3. "Gaumont Launches U.S.-Based Division Run by Katie O'Connell, Sets Projects from Bryan Fuller and Michael Hirst". September 12, 2011.
  4. hardback Berkley, 2005, ISBN   978-0-307-38174-3.
  5. Moran, Michelle (July 5, 2007). Nefertiti. Crown Publishers. OCLC   76820932 via Open WorldCat.
  6. paperback Crown; 1 edition, 2009, ISBN   978-0-307-38176-7.
  7. Alphonse, Lylah M. (December 6, 2008). "A novel of romance and intrigue in the court of ancient Egypt". The Boston Globe . Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  8. "Fiction Book Review: The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  9. hardcover Crown; 1 edition, 2009, ISBN   978-0-307-40912-6.
  10. http://www.michellemoran.com/about/index.html. Archived January 14, 2010, at the Wayback Machine