Only when a book was completely finished did she try for publication. By middle school, she had begun writing novels, but did not show them to anyone except a few close friends. She began writing at a very early age, composing on yellow lined tablets and illustrating them herself. She worked as a science writer for several years at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland before moving to Madison, Wisconsin with her husband. and Stanford University with an M.A., co-majoring in biological science and English literature. She graduated from Tufts University with a B.A. So she was exposed early to historical sites and learned that legends might have historical bases.
Foreign Service when she was four, and she lived overseas – Taiwan, Israel, and Germany – before she was thirteen. Margaret George was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1943. She has also spoken at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Hampton Court the Tower of London, and twice at the Library of Congress's National Book Festival (2011, 2019). īecause of the detailed and accurate research behind her books, she has been a featured interviewee on A & E Biography ( Henry VIII: Scandals of a King, 1996, and Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen, 1996) and a special on Alexandria ( Cleopatra's World: Alexandria Revealed, 1999). She is ranked at the forefront of historical novelists writing today. Altogether the novels have been published in 21 languages.
Several of these novels were New York Times bestsellers and the Cleopatra novel was made into an Emmy-nominated ABC-TV miniseries in 1999. She is the author of the bestselling novels The Autobiography of Henry VIII (1986), Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles (1992), The Memoirs of Cleopatra (1997), Mary, Called Magdalene (2002), Helen of Troy (2006), Elizabeth I (2011), The Confessions of Young Nero (2017), and The Splendor Before the Dark (2018). She is known for her meticulous research and the large scale of her books. Margaret George (born 1943) is an American historical novelist specializing in epic fictional biographies. The Memoirs of Cleopatra, Mary, Called Magdalene
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