The Girl Who Fought Napoleon: A Novel of the Russian Empire (42 page)

About the Author

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Linda Lafferty was a teacher for nearly three decades, in schools from Madrid, Spain, to Aspen, Colorado. She completed her PhD in bilingual special education and worked in that field; she also taught English as a second language and bilingual American history. Linda is the author of four previous novels—
The Bloodletter’s Daughter
,
The Drowning Guard
,
House of Bathory
, and
The Shepherdess of Siena
—all of which have been translated into several languages.
The Drowning Guard
won the Colorado Book Award for Historical Fiction. She lives in Colorado with her husband.