Susan Shwartz (born December 31, 1949) is an American author.[1]
Susan Shwartz | |
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Born | December 31, 1949 |
Education | Mount Holyoke College (BA) Harvard University (PhD) |
Occupation | Author |
She received her B.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College in 1972 and a PhD in English from Harvard University.[1]
Shwartz's Heirs to Byzantium trilogy – Byzantium's Crown (1987), The Woman of Flowers (1987) and Queensblade (1988) is an alternate history series. The Heirs to Byzantium novels are set in a world where Marc Antony defeats Octavius in the Battle of Actium, and joins with Cleopatra to make Byzantium capital of the Roman Empire.[1]
Shwartz's novel The Grail of Hearts (1992) is a fantasy that features the Holy Grail. It also features a sympathetic version of Kundry from Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal; Shwart's Kundry is depicted as a version of the Wandering Jew.[1]
Shwartz has published several novels and sixty short stories.
She has also collaborated with science fiction writer (and fellow Mount Holyoke alumna) Judith Tarr on the following works:
All co-written with Josepha Sherman