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Karen Essex



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Karen Essex

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url
http://www.goodreads.com/karenessex

gender
female

place of birth
New Orleans, LA, The United States

website

genre
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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avg rating: 3.51 | 846 ratings | 199 reviews | 7 distinct works | 11 fans
Leonardo's Swans: A Novel 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 Stealing Athena
by Karen Essex (Goodreads author)
avg rating 3.36 — 180 ratings — published 2008
3 editions
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Kleopatra 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... 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 Pharaoh (Kleopatra, #2)
by Karen Essex (Goodreads author)
avg rating 3.96 — 55 ratings — published 2002
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Stealing Athena Stealing Athena
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description: I'm chronicling my adventures researching and writing my next novel.
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