Elizabeth Peters has long been one of my favorite writers, and I was saddened to read just now of her death, on August 8, 2013, at the age of 85.
Admittedly, I had not cared for the later books in her Amelia Peabody series, but the first five or six, were great, as were most of her other books featuring librarian Jacqueline Kirby, and art historian/romance writer Vicki Bliss.
Peters was the pseudonym of Barbara Mertz, who under her own name wrote two non-fiction books on Egyptology - Red Land, Black Land and Temples, Tombs and Heiroglyphics.
If you like a writer, study his or her writing. Although the vast majority of her work was fiction, Barbara Mertz (aka Barbara Michaels and Elizabeth Peters) incorporated information and research into that fiction - and how she presented this background information seamlessly into her plots can be very educational for those wanting to learn how to do it!
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