Elizabeth Petersauthor profile |
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| born | September 29, 1927 |
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| gender | female |
| place of birth | Canton, Illinois, United States |
| website | http://www.mpmbooks.com/ |
| genre | Mystery & Thrillers |
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about this author
Elizabeth Peters is a pen name of Barbara Mertz. She also writes as Barbara Michaels. She was born in Canton, Illinois and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Egyptology. She has writen a few nonfiction books under her own name in the field of Egyptology. |
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books by Elizabeth Peterscombine editionsavg rating: 3.96 | 11150 ratings | 53 distinct works see all books by Elizabeth Peters » |
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quotes by 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
— Elizabeth Peters
"Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries."
— Elizabeth Peters (The Mummy Case)
— Elizabeth Peters (The Mummy Case)
"I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian)."
— Elizabeth Peters
— Elizabeth Peters