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Donna Fletcher Crow is an author best known for historical Christian fiction.〔(Fantastic Fiction website (accessed 19 July 2008) )〕 ==Biography== Donna Fletcher grew up in Nampa, Idaho. She participated in competitive riding, winning the titles of Snake River Stampede Rodeo Queen in 1959 and Miss Rodeo Idaho in 1960,〔(Miss Rodeo Idaho website (accessed 19 July 2008) )〕 and she was a runner up in the Miss Rodeo America 1960 competition. She graduated from Northwest Nazarene University in 1964. Donna married Stanley Crow, a college classmate, in 1964. They have four grown children, and live in Boise, Idaho. Donna Fletcher Crow is the author of two dozen novels plus children's books, nonfiction works and plays. She brings a lifetime love of English literature and history to her writing which has earned numerous awards. 'Glastonbury, The Novel of Christian England', one of her most successful books, is an epic novel which tells the history of England from the birth of Christ through the English Reformation, covering Roman, Celtic, Arthurian, Anglo-Saxon, Norman and Tudor periods. Two more epics of British Christian history followed Glastonbury. 'The Fields of Bannockburn' tells the story of Scotland from the arrival of St. Columba on the Isle of Iona in A.D. 563 through the achievement of William Wallace's dream of Scottish independence in 1320 under Robert the Bruce, the real 'Braveheart.' Her 1998 Irish epic 'The Banks of the Boyne' traced the history of The Troubles from the beginning of the Plantations in the early 17th century on into the establishment of real peace. 'The Cambridge Chronicles' is a six-book series covering the history of the Evangelical Anglican movement through the 18th and 19th centuries. These historical novels tell the stories of the part played by John and Charles Wesley, the Countess of Huntingdon, Roweland Hill, Charles Simeon, William Wilberforce, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Hudson Taylor, the Cambridge Seven, and others whose influence is still felt in England today. Donna Fletcher Crow's current project is 'The Monastery Murders', series set in current times in a monastery in rural Yorkshire. Her American heroine and Anglican priest hero must learn from saints and heroes of the past in order to solve modern mysteries. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Donna Fletcher Crow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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