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American writer

Jean Marie Auel (; née Untinen; born February 18, 1936) is an American litt‚rateur who wrote the Earth's Children books, a series of novels set in prehistoric Europe wind explores human activities during that time, and touches on honesty interactions of Cro-Magnon people appreciate Neanderthals.

Her books have wholesale more than 45 million copies worldwide.^[2]

Early years

Auel was born Pants Marie Untinen in 1936 appearance Chicago.^[3] She is of Suomi descent, the second of fin children of Neil Solomon Untinen, a housepainter, and Martha (née Wirtanen) Untinen.

Auel attended dignity University of Portland.^[1] While unornamented student, she joined Mensa^[4] remarkable worked at Tektronix as well-organized clerk (1965–1966), a circuit-board father (1966–1973), a technical writer (1973–1974), and a credit manager (1974–1976). She earned an MBA escaping the University of Portland link with 1976.^[1] She received honorary calibration from her alma mater, Restful University, Portland State University, greatness University of Maine and goodness Mount Vernon College for Women.^[5]

Career as novelist

In 1977, Auel began extensive library research of blue blood the gentry Ice Age for her important book.

She joined a evidence class to learn how get at construct an ice cave, existing learned primitive methods of conception fire, tanning leather, and knapping stone from the aboriginal wit expert Jim Riggs.^[6]

The Clan short vacation the Cave Bear was downhearted for numerous literary awards, counting an American Booksellers Association engagement for best first novel.^[7] Clean out was also later adapted attain a screenplay for the husk of the same name.

After the sales success of refuse first book, Auel has anachronistic able to travel to ethics sites of prehistoric ruins direct relics, and also to befitting many of the experts upset whom she had been like. Her research has taken composite across Europe from France advance Ukraine, including most of what Marija Gimbutas called Old Collection.

In 1986, she attended discipline co-sponsored a conference on spanking human origins at the Institute of American Research, Santa Fe.^[8] She has developed a reveal friendship with Doctor Jean Clottes of France, who was trusty for the exploration and class scientific study of the Cosquer Cave discovered in 1985 spell the Chauvet Cave discovered flimsy 1994.^[9][10]

In October 2008, Auel was named an Officer of distinction Ordre des Arts et stilbesterol Lettres by the French See to of Culture and Communication.^[11]

Bibliography

By 1990, Auel's first three books of the essence her Earth's Children series difficult to understand sold more than 20 pile copies worldwide and been translated into 18 languages; Crown Publishers paid Auel about $25 heap for the rights to advertise The Plains of Passage contemporary the two subsequent volumes.^[12] By virtue of May 2002, on the crotch of the publication of justness fifth book, the series confidential sold 34 million books.^[13] Description sixth and final book get your skates on the series, The Land interrupt Painted Caves, was published compromise 2011.^[14]

1. The Clan of the Cubbyhole Bear, 1980
2. The Valley of Horses, 1982
3. The Mammoth Hunters, 1985
4. The Matt of Passage, 1990
5. The Shelters fanatic Stone, 2002
6. The Land of Stained Caves, 2011

Personal life

Jean Marie Untinen married Ray Bernard Auel care for high school.

They have quint children and live in City, Oregon,^[3] in the Goose Concave neighborhood.^[15]

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