Alison Weir
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- This article is about the British writer. For the American Israel-Palestine analyst, see If Americans Knew.
Alison Weir (born 1951) is a popular British writer of history books for the general public, mostly in the form of biographies about British kings and queens. She currently lives in Surrey, England, with her two teenage children.
Before becoming an author, Weir worked as a teacher of children with special needs. She received her formal training in history at teacher training college.
Weir retains a wide following of loyal readers. Most of her books are best-sellers in the UK. She has recently completed her first novel Innocent Traitor, based on the life of Lady Jane Grey (1537 - 1554) and she plans to follow this novel with another that deals with the life of Henry VIII's fifth queen, Catherine Howard (?1525 - 1542).
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[edit] Bibliography
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[edit] Nonfiction
- Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (latest edition, 2002)
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1991)
- The Princes in the Tower (1992)
- The Wars of the Roses (1995)
- The Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII (1996, later reissued as The Children of Henry VIII)
- The Life of Elizabeth I (1998)
- Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (1999)
- Henry VIII: The King and His Court (2001)
- Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley (2003)
- Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England (2005)
- The Private Life of Charles II (2007)
[edit] Fiction
- Innocent Traitor (2006)
[edit] External links
- Random House UK minisite [1]
- Random House US minisite [2]sv:Alison Weir
