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* ''[[Search The Shadows]]'' - December 1987 ([[Atheneum]]) [[Hardcover]] | * ''[[Search The Shadows]]'' - December 1987 ([[Atheneum]]) [[Hardcover]] | ||
* ''[[Shattered Silk]]'' - September 1986 ([[Atheneum]]) [[Hardcover]] | * ''[[Shattered Silk]]'' - September 1986 ([[Atheneum]]) [[Hardcover]] | ||
| − | * ''[[Smoke And Mirrors]]'' - December 1988 ([[Simon and Schuster|Simon & Schuster]]) [[Hardcover]] | + | * ''[[Smoke And Mirrors - Barbara Michaels|Smoke And Mirrors]]'' - December 1988 ([[Simon and Schuster|Simon & Schuster]]) [[Hardcover]] |
* ''[[Someone In The House]]'' - 1981 ([[Dodd, Mead]]) [[Hardcover]] | * ''[[Someone In The House]]'' - 1981 ([[Dodd, Mead]]) [[Hardcover]] | ||
* ''[[Sons Of The Wolf]]'' - 1968 ([[Jenkins]]) [[Hardcover]] = [[Mystery On The Moors]] | * ''[[Sons Of The Wolf]]'' - 1968 ([[Jenkins]]) [[Hardcover]] = [[Mystery On The Moors]] | ||
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== Honors/Awards == | == Honors/Awards == | ||
| + | *1991 [[Lifetime Achievement Award]] - Romance Writers of America | ||
* [[1989-1990 Career Achievement Award Winners|1989-1990 Career Achievement Award Winner]] - [[Romantic Times Magazine]] - Historical Romantic Mystery | * [[1989-1990 Career Achievement Award Winners|1989-1990 Career Achievement Award Winner]] - [[Romantic Times Magazine]] - Historical Romantic Mystery | ||
| + | * 1991 [[Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award|Lifetime Achievement Award]] - [[Romance Writers of America]] (''Barbara Mertz'') | ||
| + | * [[1990-1991 Career Achievement Award Winners|1990-1991 Career Achievement Award Winner]] - [[Romantic Times Magazine]] - Contemporary Suspense | ||
| + | * [[2002 Career Achievement Award Winners|2002 Career Achievement Award Winner]] - [[Romantic Times Magazine]] - Historical Mystery | ||
Latest revision as of 03:29, 10 February 2023
Barbara Michaels is a pen name of Barbara Mertz (b. 1927). Born and raised in Illinois, she received her PH.D in Egyptology from the University of Chicago. Prior to her career as an romance writer she wrote 2 non-fiction books about Ancient Egypt in 1964 under her real name: a history titled Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs and Red Land, Black Land about the daily life there - both still in print (2008). In 1966 she published her first novel as Barbara Michaels, The Master Of Blacktower, a Gothic. Under that name she wrote historical and contemporary romantic suspense novels, same of them with paranormal elements. Since the release of Other Worlds in 1999, she solely publishes new novels as her alter ego, Elizabeth Peters.
See also
On the Web
Bibliography
Books
- Ammie, Come Home - 1968 (Meredith Press) Hardcover
- Be Buried In The Rain - November 1985 (Atheneum) Hardcover
- Black Rainbow - August 1982 (Congdon & Weed) Hardcover
- Crying Child, The - 1971 (Dodd, Mead) Hardcover
- Dancing Floor, The - February 1997 (HarperCollins) Hardcover
- Dark On The Other Side, The - 1970 (Dodd, Mead) Hardcover
- Grey Beginning, The - September 1984 (Congdon & Weed) Hardcover
- Greygallows - 1972 (Dodd, Mead) Hardcover
- Here I Stay - September 1983 (Congdon & Weed) Hardcover
- House Of Many Shadows - 1974 (Dodd, Mead) Hardcover
- Houses Of Stone - September 1993 (Simon & Schuster) Hardcover
- Into The Darkness - April 1990 (Simon & Schuster) Hardcover
- Master Of Blacktower, The - 1966 (Appleton) Hardcover
- Mystery On The Moors - 1967 (Paperback Library) = Sons Of The Wolf
- Other Worlds - January 1999 (HarperCollins) Hardcover
- Patriot's Dream - 1976 (Dodd, Mead) Hardcover
- Prince Of Darkness - 1969 (Meredith Press) Hardcover
- Sea King's Daughter, The - 1975 (Dodd, Mead) Hardcover
- Search The Shadows - December 1987 (Atheneum) Hardcover
- Shattered Silk - September 1986 (Atheneum) Hardcover
- Smoke And Mirrors - December 1988 (Simon & Schuster) Hardcover
- Someone In The House - 1981 (Dodd, Mead) Hardcover
- Sons Of The Wolf - 1968 (Jenkins) Hardcover = Mystery On The Moors
- Stitches In Time - March 1995 (HarperCollins) Hardcover
- Vanish With The Rose - September 1992 (Simon & Schuster) Hardcover
- Wait For What Will Come - August 1978 (Doubleday) Hardcover
- Walker In Shadows, The - September 1979 (Dodd, Mead) Hardcover
- Wings Of The Falcon - 1977 (Dodd, Mead) Hardcover
- Witch - 1973 (Dodd, Mead) Hardcover
- Wizard's Daughter, The - September 1980 (Dodd, Mead) Hardcover
Novellas
- Runaway, The in "Sisters In Crime" - May 1989 (Berkley)
Honors/Awards
- 1991 Lifetime Achievement Award - Romance Writers of America
- 1989-1990 Career Achievement Award Winner - Romantic Times Magazine - Historical Romantic Mystery
- 1991 Lifetime Achievement Award - Romance Writers of America (Barbara Mertz)
- 1990-1991 Career Achievement Award Winner - Romantic Times Magazine - Contemporary Suspense
- 2002 Career Achievement Award Winner - Romantic Times Magazine - Historical Mystery
