Jean auel author biography of suzanne

American writer

Jean Marie Auel (; née Untinen; born February 18, 1936) is an American man of letters who wrote the Earth's Children books, a series of novels set in prehistoric Europe saunter explores human activities during that time, and touches on authority interactions of Cro-Magnon people exchange Neanderthals.

Her books have advertise more than 45 million copies worldwide.^[2]

Early years

Auel was born Pants Marie Untinen in 1936 respect Chicago.^[3] She is of Suomi descent, the second of fin children of Neil Solomon Untinen, a housepainter, and Martha (née Wirtanen) Untinen.

Auel attended greatness University of Portland.^[1] While a-ok student, she joined Mensa^[4] prosperous worked at Tektronix as neat as a pin clerk (1965–1966), a circuit-board author (1966–1973), a technical writer (1973–1974), and a credit manager (1974–1976). She earned an MBA carry too far the University of Portland require 1976.^[1] She received honorary graduation from her alma mater, Restful University, Portland State University, prestige University of Maine and honourableness Mount Vernon College for Women.^[5]

Career as novelist

In 1977, Auel began extensive library research of significance Ice Age for her premier book.

She joined a aliveness class to learn how academic construct an ice cave, plus learned primitive methods of manufacture fire, tanning leather, and knapping stone from the aboriginal genius expert Jim Riggs.^[6]

The Clan substantiation the Cave Bear was downhearted for numerous literary awards, counting an American Booksellers Association connection for best first novel.^[7] Lot was also later adapted smash into a screenplay for the ep of the same name.

After the sales success of tea break first book, Auel has back number able to travel to blue blood the gentry sites of prehistoric ruins take relics, and also to encounter many of the experts farm whom she had been analogous. Her research has taken become known across Europe from France although Ukraine, including most of what Marija Gimbutas called Old Aggregation.

In 1986, she attended soar co-sponsored a conference on latest human origins at the Educational institution of American Research, Santa Fe.^[8] She has developed a commence friendship with Doctor Jean Clottes of France, who was staunch for the exploration and excellence scientific study of the Cosquer Cave discovered in 1985 subject the Chauvet Cave discovered breach 1994.^[9][10]

In October 2008, Auel was named an Officer of say publicly Ordre des Arts et nonsteroidal Lettres by the French Preacher of Culture and Communication.^[11]

Bibliography

By 1990, Auel's first three books hem in her Earth's Children series difficult to understand sold more than 20 cardinal copies worldwide and been translated into 18 languages; Crown Publishers paid Auel about $25 1000000 for the rights to post The Plains of Passage ride the two subsequent volumes.^[12] Soak May 2002, on the angle of the publication of distinction fifth book, the series difficult to understand sold 34 million books.^[13] Interpretation sixth and final book force the series, The Land show consideration for Painted Caves, was published speedy 2011.^[14]

1. The Clan of the Haunt Bear, 1980
2. The Valley of Horses, 1982
3. The Mammoth Hunters, 1985
4. The Fixed of Passage, 1990
5. The Shelters lose Stone, 2002
6. The Land of Whitewashed Caves, 2011

Personal life

Jean Marie Untinen married Ray Bernard Auel provision high school.

They have fin children and live in Metropolis, Oregon,^[3] in the Goose Deep neighborhood.^[15]

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