Jean M. Auel
Jean Marie Auel ( born February 18, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer.
Life
Jean Marie Auel was born the second of five children of the painter Neil Solomon Untinen and his wife Martha (born Wirtanen ). She married after graduating from high school on March 19, 1954 Ray Bernard Auel and had at the age of 25 years already five children, Raeann, Karen, Lenore, and Kendall Marshall. She studied at Portland State University, the University of Portland, University of Maine and the Mt Vernon College. Since 1964 she is a member of Mensa International. She worked from 1965 to 1966 as an employee, from 1966 as a platinum designer, from 1973 as Technical Writer from 1974 to 1976 as a credit manager. She graduated in 1976 at the age of 40 years, her Master of Business Administration (MBA ) from.
Work
After graduating as an MBA in 1976, she began the research for her first historical novel, The Clan of the Cave Bear, which was published in 1980 ( dt: The Clan of the Bear ). In the following years, she expanded the children of earth - cycle to the volumes The Valley of Horses (1982, dt: Ayla and the Valley of the Horses), The Mammoth Hunters (1985, dt: mammoth hunters ) and The Plains of Passage (1990, German: Ayla and the valley of the Great Mother ). After twelve years, was released in 2002 the fifth volume of the cycle, The Shelters of Stone (German: Ayla and the fire stone). On 29 March 2011, the sixth volume was published with the title The Land of Painted Caves (German: Ayla and the song of the caves ).
The children of earth - cycle plays about 25,000 to 35,000 years ago in Ice Age Europe, where there is a more or less peaceful coexistence of modern humans and the Neanderthals in the Aurignacian. The cycle describes the life story of the main character Ayla, who as a young child loses their parents and raised by Neanderthals near the Black Sea. She has a child from a Neanderthal. Later, she is looking for people " their own kind " and learns Jondalar, with whom they carried the glacial Europe attracts transversely along the Danube valley to his home in France today. The last band to play in Spain and / or Italy.
The cycle creates a detailed picture of a glacial flora and fauna as well as the archaeological cultures - both the " modern man " ( Cro- Magnon ) and the Neanderthals. Auel picked up prior to the publication of many archeologists the Council, including among others by Jan Jelinek, who described her techniques and findings are therefore portrayed largely reliable. Some critics have accused her, however, to have projected manners zivilisierterer companies to the Stone Age societies. In fact, in all the volumes exclusion Anders Grand, racism and communication problems between people of different backgrounds are discussed. The books have been sold in many translations with a worldwide circulation of 34 million copies. The first volume in 1986 was filmed under the title of The Clan of the Bear with Daryl Hannah as Ayla.