Her novels about the thirteenth century magnate William Marshal, The Greatest Knight, and The Scarlet Lion, have brought her international acclaim.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:06:49 Boxid IA176801 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor Chadwick is renowned for her extensive research into the medieval period and particularly so in the area of the Marshal and Bigod families. the Prince of Wales.Įlizabeth Chadwick has gone on to become one of Britain's foremost historical novelists and has been called by the Historical Novel Society 'The Best Writer of Medieval Fiction currently around.' She is published internationally and her work has been translated into 16 languages. A year later the book won a Betty Trask Award, which was presented to the author at Whitehall by H.R.H.
The book was auctioned to Michael Joseph, which is part of Penguin Group. In 1989, after years of writing and rejections during which her works won some competitions, a literary agent became interested in The Wild Hunt, one of her books. Her first foray into historical fiction, a novel about the Holy Land in the twelfth century, led her to the realisation that she wanted to write historical fiction for a living. She has told herself stories all of her life, but didn't actually write anything down until she was fifteen.
She came to Nottingham when she was ten and has lived there ever since. She moved with her family to Scotland when she was four years old and spent her childhood in the village of Newton Mearns near Glasgow. Elizabeth Chadwick was born in Bury, Lancashire.
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