Best-selling mystery writer Barbara Mertz, who published dozens of novels under her two pseudonyms, has passed away at the age 85, her daughter Elizabeth tells publisher HarperCollins.
Mertz is perhaps best known for her series featuring archaeologist Amelia Peabody, which she wrote under the pen name Elizabeth Peters. The series has 19 novels and spans nearly 40 years, beginning in 1884, with the intrepid heroine spending a good bit of her time in Egypt.
Barbara Michaels is the other pen name Mertz wrote under, using that one to produce 29 suspense novels, including the Georgetown trilogy. Mertz also wrote nonfiction books about ancient Egypt, having received her Ph.D. in Egyptology at the age of 23.
But she found her passion was writing and sold her first novel in 1966. In 1998, Mertz received the grandmaster lifetime achievement award from the Mystery Writers of America, which is the top award the group gives out.
Mertz is survived by two children,...
Mertz is perhaps best known for her series featuring archaeologist Amelia Peabody, which she wrote under the pen name Elizabeth Peters. The series has 19 novels and spans nearly 40 years, beginning in 1884, with the intrepid heroine spending a good bit of her time in Egypt.
Barbara Michaels is the other pen name Mertz wrote under, using that one to produce 29 suspense novels, including the Georgetown trilogy. Mertz also wrote nonfiction books about ancient Egypt, having received her Ph.D. in Egyptology at the age of 23.
But she found her passion was writing and sold her first novel in 1966. In 1998, Mertz received the grandmaster lifetime achievement award from the Mystery Writers of America, which is the top award the group gives out.
Mertz is survived by two children,...
- 8/9/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Tana leaves brewing in the microwave, I spent seven days in full-on Mummy mode. It was such a dead-Egyptian-walking time for me that I considered binding myself in stray Band-aids before taking a nap, but, no, That would be crazy. Isn’t sipping hot, steaming tana leaves tea—with natural, Mummy-controlling powers—enough?
I’ve always been fascinated by The Mummy, that 1932 Universal picture starring Boris Karloff as the venerable Imhotep, resurrected by an inopportune reading of the life-giving Scroll of Thoth—first seen (however briefly) in slow-motion, wrapped-up Mummyness, later all parchment-faced, leathery, dried-out humanity as “Ardath Bey.” In this form, fez-topped Bey prefers “not to be touched,” because, of course, he might fall apart and break into ancient dust if someone should give his hand a good shaking.
Even today, I can remember when I first saw that fantasy film at age 10. I had spent most of Saturday...
I’ve always been fascinated by The Mummy, that 1932 Universal picture starring Boris Karloff as the venerable Imhotep, resurrected by an inopportune reading of the life-giving Scroll of Thoth—first seen (however briefly) in slow-motion, wrapped-up Mummyness, later all parchment-faced, leathery, dried-out humanity as “Ardath Bey.” In this form, fez-topped Bey prefers “not to be touched,” because, of course, he might fall apart and break into ancient dust if someone should give his hand a good shaking.
Even today, I can remember when I first saw that fantasy film at age 10. I had spent most of Saturday...
- 10/27/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (David McDonnell)
- Starlog
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