Judith Merkle Riley
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Judith Merkle Riley (January 14, 1942 – September 12, 2010) was an American writer, teacher and academic who wrote six historical romance novels.
Biography
Judith Astria Merkle was born in 1942 and grew up in Livermore, California. Her great-uncle was baseball player Fred Merkle. Her father, Theodore Charles Merkle, ran Project Pluto, and her brother Ralph is a pioneer in public key cryptography. She earned a MA from Harvard University and held a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and taught in the Department of Government at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California.[1]
She wrote six historical fiction novels, starting in 1988.[1]
She was married and had two children, a daughter Elizabeth and a son Marlow.[1]
Riley died on September 12, 2010, from ovarian cancer.[1]
Bibliography
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- A Vision of Light (1988) Template:ISBN
- In Pursuit of the Green Lion (1990) Template:ISBN
- The Water-devil (2007) Template:ISBN
Single novels
- The Oracle Glass (1994) Template:ISBN
- The Serpent Garden (1996) Template:ISBN
- The Master of All Desires (1999) Template:ISBN
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- 1942 births
- 2010 deaths
- American romantic fiction writers
- Deaths from ovarian cancer in California
- Novelists from Maine
- People from Livermore, California
- Writers from Brunswick, Maine
- American women novelists
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century American women writers
- American women romantic fiction writers
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Claremont McKenna College faculty
- Novelists from California
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women
- Harvard University alumni