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Sharon D. Michalove

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in Chicago, The United States
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Agatha Christie, Jane Austen, Dorothy L. Sayers

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Sharon Michalove grew up in suburban Chicago. She received four degrees from the University of Illinois because she didn't have the gumption to go anywhere else, and spent most of her career at the university, eventually earning a PhD, working in departmental administration, publishing and libraries. Her specialties are 15th-16th century European history, polar exploration, and food history. She may be one of the few people in America to never live outside her home state.

In graduate school, she met and married the love of her life. They shared a love of music, theater, travel and cats. He died in 2013.

Sharon also loves hockey, reading, cooking, writing, and various less elevated activities like eating cookies and sampling gins and single ma
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Sharon D. Michalove I am writing the second book in the Global Security Unlimited series, At the Crossroads. It should be published next spring.
Sharon D. Michalove So many possibilities. Even as a child I was pulled toward Agatha Christie’s St. Mary Mead and Dorothy L. Sayers Oxford. The entire world of Deborah H…moreSo many possibilities. Even as a child I was pulled toward Agatha Christie’s St. Mary Mead and Dorothy L. Sayers Oxford. The entire world of Deborah Harkness’ All Souls series has it’s allure, as does Donna Leon’s Venice. Ellery Adams’ Storyton Hall, known for its book retreats and secret library in the hills of Virginia, exerts a strong pull. And I’d love to travel the known world of the fifteenth century with Dorothy Dunnett’s Nicholas Fleury. Who wouldn’t want to hang with J. Bengtsson’s McKallister family in the Cake series? And traveling around with Julie Moffett’s Lexi Carmichael and her boyfriend Slash as they fight cybercrime is always a great adventure.

Julie Mulhern’s Kansas City mysteries, set in the 1970s, brings back memories. And Aven Ellis has dragged me from Chicago to Dallas to Colorado to Seattle to Washington, D.C. and all the way across the pond to England. Hockey, baseball, and modern royals—how much fun is that?

Fortunately I can always hang out with my own characters, Max Grant and Cressida Taylor, in Chicago. Not just because I created them, but because I live there. So much fun to find interesting places and put them into a book. Generally any place a book takes me is a place I would love to hang out.(less)
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Sharon Beth wrote: "Hi Sharon,
Thanks for befriending me here as well as Facebook!
- Beth"


Hi Beth,
I'm just the friendly type I guess.
Sharon


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Beth Hi Sharon,
Thanks for befriending me here as well as Facebook!
- Beth


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