Lindsey Davis
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born
January 01, 1949
gender
female
place of birth
Birmingham, The United Kingdom
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Mystery & Thrillers
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Lindsey Davis, historical novelist, was born in Birmingham, England in 1949. Having taken a degree in English literature at Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall), she became a civil servant. She left the civil service after 13 years, and when a romantic novel she had written was runner up for the 1985 Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize, she decided to become a writer, writing at first romantic serials for the UK women's magazine Woman's Realm.
Her interest in history and archaeology led to her writing a historical novel about Vespasian and his lover Antonia Caenis (The Course of Honour), for which she couldn't find a publisher. She tried again, and her first novel featuring the Roman "detective", Marcus Didius Falc...more
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"Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return."
— Lindsey Davis (The Course of Honor)
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— Lindsey Davis (The Course of Honor)
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