Martha Rofheart

Martha Rofheart (1917 - 1990) was an American writer of historical novels and an actress. She was born Martha Jones May 27, 1917 in Louisville, KY. A stage actress in the 1940s and 1950s, she appeared in Blythe Spirit, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Heiress, The Respectful Prostitute, and other plays, and toured with stars such as Katherine Cornell, Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne, and Maurice Evans. She was married twice, the second time in November 1952 to an art director, Ralph Rofheart, with whom she had one child, Evan. Rofheart wrote six novels of historical fiction, beginning in 1972 with Fortune Made His Sword, a novel of Henry V of England. These novels were published in many languages throughout the world.

Rofheart subsequently wrote five novels, Glendower Country/Cry God for Glendower (Owen Glendower), My Name Is Sappho (Sappho), The Alexandrian (Cleopatra), Lionheart!: A Novel of Richard I, King of England, and a fictionalized theatrical family saga entitled The Savage Brood.

A short story from later in her life has been published online, "An Evening with Lynn Fontanne".

She died 19 June 1990.

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Name	Rofheart, Martha
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Date of birth	1917
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Date of death	1990
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