![]() Her divorce spurred her on to produce 16 novels over the next 10 years, though she was always wary of condescending reviewers who used the word "prolific". It was only when she and her husband moved to Germany for two years that she discovered the life of a writer, first as an Egyptologist and then as a novelist under the name Barbara Michaels, with the publication in 1966 of the gothic romance The Master of Blacktower. Unable to find a job in academia, she took secretarial work, which was easier to obtain if she hid the fact that she had a PhD. She was enrolled in the University of Chicago on a scholarship in 1947 and was awarded her BA, then MA and her doctorate in Egyptology in 1952. ![]() She was born Barbara Louise Gross in Astoria, Illinois, during the great depression, the daughter of a printer and a teacher, and maintained that she "fell in love with Egyptology at the age of 13" on a trip to a museum. ![]() Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters ![]()
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