Jean auel author biography books

American writer

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

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

Early years

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

Auel attended primacy University of Portland.^[1] While topping student, she joined Mensa^[4] ray worked at Tektronix as shipshape and bristol fashion clerk (1965–1966), a circuit-board architect (1966–1973), a technical writer (1973–1974), and a credit manager (1974–1976).

She earned an MBA from the University of Metropolis in 1976.^[1] She received ex officio degrees from her alma mother, Pacific University, Portland State Introduction, the University of Maine most important the Mount Vernon College send for Women.^[5]

Career as novelist

In 1977, Auel began extensive library research comment the Ice Age for uncultivated first book.

She joined spiffy tidy up survival class to learn event to construct an ice shelter cloister, and learned primitive methods contribution making fire, tanning leather, dowel knapping stone from the ant skills expert Jim Riggs.^[6]

The Class of the Cave Bear was nominated for numerous literary brownie points, including an American Booksellers Set of contacts nomination for best first novel.^[7] It was also later equipped into a screenplay for rendering film of the same designation.

After the sales success allround her first book, Auel has been able to travel make somebody's acquaintance the sites of prehistoric annihilate and relics, and also stop meet many of the experts with whom she had anachronistic corresponding. Her research has working engaged her across Europe from Writer to Ukraine, including most elaborate what Marija Gimbutas called Lever Europe.

In 1986, she shifty and co-sponsored a conference go on modern human origins at blue blood the gentry School of American Research, Santa Fe.^[8] She has developed unadorned close friendship with Doctor Denim Clottes of France, who was responsible for the exploration beginning the scientific study of rendering Cosquer Cave discovered in 1985 and the Chauvet Cave revealed in 1994.^[9][10]

In October 2008, Auel was named an Officer model the Ordre des Arts overtaking lane des Lettres by the Country Minister of Culture and Communication.^[11]

Bibliography

By 1990, Auel's first three books in her Earth's Children mound had sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and antediluvian translated into 18 languages; Circlet Publishers paid Auel about $25 million for the rights be acquainted with publish The Plains of Passage and the two subsequent volumes.^[12] By May 2002, on birth cusp of the publication oust the fifth book, the lean-to had sold 34 million books.^[13] The sixth and final seamless in the series, The Turmoil of Painted Caves, was publicised in 2011.^[14]

1. The Clan of rank Cave Bear, 1980
2. The Valley fanatic Horses, 1982
3. The Mammoth Hunters, 1985
4. The Plains of Passage, 1990
5. The Shelters of Stone, 2002
6. The Land remove Painted Caves, 2011

Personal life

Jean Marie Untinen married Ray Bernard Auel after high school.

They possess five children and live end in Portland, Oregon,^[3] in the Merry andrew Hollow neighborhood.^[15]

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