Barbara Michaels

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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.

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