Elizabeth Peters
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born
September 29, 1927
gender
female
place of birth
Canton, Illinois, The United States
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genre
Mystery & Thrillers
about this author
Elizabeth Peters is a pen name of Barbara Mertz. She also writes as Barbara Michaels.
Elizabeth Peters was born and brought up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Peters was named Grand Master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar Awards in 1998. She lives in a historic farmhouse in western Maryland.
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"No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it."
— Elizabeth Peters
13 editions
— Elizabeth Peters
"The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be."
— Elizabeth Peters
13 editions
— Elizabeth Peters
"Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries."
— Elizabeth Peters (The Mummy Case)
13 editions
— Elizabeth Peters (The Mummy Case)
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