Mary Doria Russell
Mary Doria Russell ( born August 19, 1950 in Chicago, Illinois ) is an American author of science fiction and historical novels.
Life and work
Mary Doria Russell grew up as the daughter of a Navy nurse and a drill sergeant in the Marines in the Chicago suburb of Elmhurst. She studied at the University of Illinois and Northeastern University and received his doctorate in 1983 at the University of Michigan in anthropology. After that, she was awarded a research fellowship at Case Western Reserve University, which had to stop it before because of job cuts .. She worked for several years as a technical writer for instructions. When the orders failed, they made off with 45 years of her first novel, The Sparrow (Eng. " Sparrow "). The novel was a great success. It has been translated into twelve languages and has received numerous awards, including the Kurd - Laßwitz price. The sequel Children of God ( "God's children " ) became a bestseller. In her next two novels, A Thread of Grace and Dreamers of the Day, which have not been translated into German, it deals with events from the history of the 20th century.
Novels
- The Sparrow. Villard, New York, 1996, ISBN 0-679-45150-1 (German Sperling. Heyne, Munich, 2000, ISBN 3-453-16180-7 ).
- Children of God. Villard, New York, 1998, ISBN 978-0679456353 (German children of God. Heyne, Munich, 2000, ISBN 3-453-16180-7 ).
- A Thread of Grace. Random House, New York, 2005, ISBN 0-375-50184-3.
- Dreamers of the Day. Random House, New York, 2008, ISBN 1-4000-6471-6.