February's Featured Writer --> Morgan Llywelyn
Born in New York City of Irish and Welsh-Irish parentage, Morgan Llywelyn is an Irish citizen who lives in Ireland year round. Her work covers a wide area of interests. She writes deeply researched historical fiction such as Lion of Ireland, Grania, and The Last Prince of Ireland, but has also retold the great Irish myths in Bard, Red Branch and Finn Maccool. In addition, she writes a certain amount of pure fantasy. Her novel The Elementals falls into this category, as does her work in collaboration with Michael Scott.
Morgan Llywelyn is also the only woman to have walked both the breadth and length of Ireland on her personal feet. From Malin Head to Mizen Head was 427 miles, walked at the peak of the hottest Irish summer in living memory. "It meant walking over 30 miles a day for sixteen days with no break," she says. "We raised a lot of money for charity...that sort of thing is very much a part of whatever I am."
One of my personal favorite books by Llywelyn is Lion of Ireland is the inspiring story of Brian Boru, Ireland's greatest King who unified it's people and became the Irish Charlemagne. I'd definitely recommend her books to anyone, they have just the right mixture of fantasy and reality based on actual historical events.
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You can visit her website @ http://www.completist.com/
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