AuthorElizabeth Peters
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Born29 September 1927
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Elizabeth Peters is a pen name of Barbara Mertz. She also wrote as Barbara Michaels as well as her own name. Born and brought up in Illinois, she earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago. Mertz was named Grand Master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and Grand aster by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar
Mark Twain
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect)."
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Virginia Woolf"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."