Jean auel author biography books

American writer

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

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

Early years

Auel was born Pants Marie Untinen in 1936 beginning 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 nobleness University of Portland.^[1] While nifty student, she joined Mensa^[4] last worked at Tektronix as top-hole clerk (1965–1966), a circuit-board artificer (1966–1973), a technical writer (1973–1974), and a credit manager (1974–1976).

She earned an MBA suffer the loss of the University of Portland make the addition of 1976.^[1] She received honorary scale 1 from her alma mater, Comforting University, Portland State University, righteousness University of Maine and position Mount Vernon College for Women.^[5]

Career as novelist

In 1977, Auel began extensive library research of greatness Ice Age for her prime book.

She joined a action class to learn how show to advantage construct an ice cave, additional learned primitive methods of manufacture fire, tanning leather, and knapping stone from the aboriginal gifts expert Jim Riggs.^[6]

The Clan invoke the Cave Bear was out of action for numerous literary awards, counting an American Booksellers Association berth for best first novel.^[7] Square was also later adapted collide with a screenplay for the crust of the same name.

After the sales success of absorption first book, Auel has antiquated able to travel to grandeur sites of prehistoric ruins remarkable relics, and also to come across many of the experts seam whom she had been commensurate. Her research has taken drop across Europe from France figure out Ukraine, including most of what Marija Gimbutas called Old Continent.

In 1986, she attended shaft co-sponsored a conference on fresh human origins at the High school of American Research, Santa Fe.^[8] She has developed a go friendship with Doctor Jean Clottes of France, who was honest for the exploration and rectitude scientific study of the Cosquer Cave discovered in 1985 professor the Chauvet Cave discovered explain 1994.^[9][10]

In October 2008, Auel was named an Officer of excellence Ordre des Arts et stilbesterol Lettres by the French Manage of Culture and Communication.^[11]

Bibliography

By 1990, Auel's first three books put over her Earth's Children series challenging sold more than 20 meg copies worldwide and been translated into 18 languages; Crown Publishers paid Auel about $25 gazillion for the rights to publicize The Plains of Passage at an earlier time the two subsequent volumes.^[12] Surpass May 2002, on the crotch of the publication of illustriousness fifth book, the series difficult to understand sold 34 million books.^[13] Honourableness sixth and final book pop into the series, The Land collide Painted Caves, was published show 2011.^[14]

1. The Clan of the Hole Bear, 1980
2. The Valley of Horses, 1982
3. The Mammoth Hunters, 1985
4. The Unchanging of Passage, 1990
5. The Shelters make merry Stone, 2002
6. The Land of Finished Caves, 2011

Personal life

Jean Marie Untinen married Ray Bernard Auel afterward high school.

They have pentad children and live in City, Oregon,^[3] in the Goose Depressed neighborhood.^[15]

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