- Sandra Gulland
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birthdate = 1944
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occupation = novelist
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website = http://www.sandragulland.comSandra Gulland (Born November 3, 1944) is an American-born Canadian novelist. She is the author of "Mistress of the Sun", a historical novel based on
Louise de la Vallière , mistress ofLouis XIV , The Sun King, and a trilogy of novels based on the life ofJosephine Bonaparte : "The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B."; "Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe"; "The Last Great Dance on Earth".To date, Gulland's novels have been published in fifteen countries and translated into thirteen languages. "The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B." was a bestseller in the UK.
Biography
Born November 3, 1944, in
Miami, Florida , Sandra Gulland (née Zentner) was brought up inBerkeley, California . After graduating fromBerkeley High School , she attendedSan Francisco State College , theUniversity of California at Berkeley , andRoosevelt University in Chicago, graduating with a BA in English literature and a minor in mathematics.She emigrated to Canada in 1969, teaching for a year in Nain, Labrador, before moving to Toronto to work as a book editor in book publishing. She was a founding member of the
Editors' Association of Canada (then the Freelance Editors' Association of Canada).In 1978, she and her family moved to rural Ontario, where she was volunteer principal of the Killaloe Alternative School and co-publisher of The Community News & Confuse. She became a Canadian citizen in 1980. She and her husband now live half the year near Killaloe, Ontario, and half in
San Miguel de Allende , Mexico.Bibliography
*The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. — 1995
*Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe — 1998
*The Last Great Dance on Earth — 2000
*Mistress of the Sun — 2008External links
* [http://www.sandragulland.com Sandra Gulland's official website]
* [http://inkwellreview.blogspot.com/2008/07/tribute-to-unlikely-mistress.html An interview about "Mistress of the Sun"]Persondata
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