Judith Merkle Riley

Judith Astria Merkle ( born January 14, 1942 in Livermore, † 12 September 2010) was an American writer.

Life

Her great- uncle was the famous baseball player Fred Merkle, her father - Theodore Charles Merkle - ran the project Pluto and her brother Ralph C. Merkle is a pioneer in public-key cryptography and a researcher and speaker of molecular nanotechnology and cryonics.

Riley had a doctor of philosophy degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She was a lecturer in political science at Claremont McKenna College and the Claremont Graduate School of California. Judith Merkle Riley was married and mother of two. From 1988 to 2007 she wrote six historical novels.

Works

Historical novels by Judith Merkle Riley:

Margaret of Ashbury series

  • (1989 ) The voice, orig. A vision of Light
  • (1991) Vision, orig. In Pursuit of the Green Lion
  • (1996 ) The magic source, orig. The Water Devil

Other books

  • (1994 ) The search for the rainbow, orig. The Serpent Garden
  • (1994 ) The Witch of Paris, orig. The oracle glass
  • ( 1999) The secret mission of Nostradamus, orig. The master of all desires
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