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Karen Essex
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http://www.goodreads.com/karenessex
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female
place of birth
New Orleans, LA, The United States
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Literature & Fiction, History, Biographies & Memoirs
influences
Iris Murdoch, Proust, Naguib Mafouz, Raymond Carver, Mary Renault, Robert Graves, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Verdi
member since
June 2008
about this author
I'm the author of Stealing Athena, Leonardo's Swans, Kleopatra, Pharaoh, and Bettie Page: Life of a Pin Up Legend. I am also an active screenwriter and an award-winning journalist. At the moment, I am living in London, researching and writing my next book, a gothic Victorian novel. You can follow my progress and share my joys and sorrows at www.karenessex.com/blog.
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KE: The film producer Lynda Obst once told me that she came up with the idea for the George Clooney/Michelle Pfeiffer romantic comedy One Fine Day, when she—overworked, exhausted—was lying on a massage table thinking that to meet a man she would have to literally crash into one with her car. Andrew Davidson, who I chatted with recently on the blog, opened his bestseller, The Gargolye, with a ... ...more
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Leonardo's Swans: A Novel by Karen Essex (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.37 — 401 ratings — published 2006 14 editions |
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Stealing Athena by Karen Essex (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.36 — 180 ratings — published 2008 3 editions |
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Kleopatra by Karen Essex (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.77 — 121 ratings — published 2001 4 editions |
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Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-Up Legend by Karen Essex (Goodreads author), James L. Swanson avg rating 4.24 — 45 ratings — published 1996 2 editions |
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Pharaoh (Kleopatra, #2) by Karen Essex (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.96 — 55 ratings — published 2002 5 editions |
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Stealing Athena by Karen Essex (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008 |
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Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2006 2 editions |
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I'm chronicling my adventures researching and writing my next novel.
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"One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time."
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