Snakesleeper - Softcover

Ann Chamberlin worked on the excavation of the biblical city of Beersheva and traveled throughout the Middle East. She reads Hebrew, Arabic, Egyptian hieroglyphs and ancient Akkadian as well as English, French and German. She is the author of ten published historical novels including a trilogy set in sixteenth-century Turkey which spent over a year on the Turkish bestseller list. A nonfiction HISTORY OF WOMEN'S SECLUSION IN THE MIDDLE EAST is due out in September 2006. Her plays have been produced across the country. JIHAD, produced in New York City in both 1996 and 2000, won The Off-Off Broadway Review's best new play of the year.