Mary Doria Russell

Dr. Russell taught human gross anatomy at Case Western Reserve University in the 1980s, but left academe to write full time. Russell's work has been recognized with nine national and international
literary awards. Her books The Sparrow and
Children of God remain steady sellers, translated
into a dozen languages.

Dreamers of the Day, about the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference when a handful of British diplomats, oil executives and military men invented the modern Middle East, was published in the spring of 2008. As Mary says, "It's their world. We just live in it." She is writing a murder mystery set in Dodge City in 1878, a genre two-fer featuring Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and the great vaudevillian Eddie Foy. She resides in Cleveland.

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