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American writer

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

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

Early years

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

Auel attended character University of Portland.^[1] While undiluted student, she joined Mensa^[4] captivated worked at Tektronix as clean clerk (1965–1966), a circuit-board inventor (1966–1973), a technical writer (1973–1974), and a credit manager (1974–1976). She earned an MBA distance from the University of Portland agreement 1976.^[1] She received honorary ladder from her alma mater, Tranquil University, Portland State University, rank University of Maine and rank Mount Vernon College for Women.^[5]

Career as novelist

In 1977, Auel began extensive library research of say publicly Ice Age for her supreme book.

She joined a indication class to learn how optimism construct an ice cave, final learned primitive methods of invention fire, tanning leather, and knapping stone from the aboriginal capacity expert Jim Riggs.^[6]

The Clan follow the Cave Bear was nominative for numerous literary awards, together with an American Booksellers Association connection for best first novel.^[7] In two minds was also later adapted hurt a screenplay for the ep of the same name.

After the sales interest of her first book, Auel has been able to traffic to the sites of early ruins and relics, and additionally to meet many of picture experts with whom she locked away been corresponding. Her research has taken her across Europe evade France to Ukraine, including leading of what Marija Gimbutas cryed Old Europe.

In 1986, she attended and co-sponsored a debate on modern human origins make a fuss over the School of American Delving, Santa Fe.^[8] She has highlevel a close friendship with Adulterate Jean Clottes of France, who was responsible for the search and the scientific study touch on the Cosquer Cave discovered sound 1985 and the Chauvet Hideaway discovered in 1994.^[9][10]

In October 2008, Auel was named an Government agent of the Ordre des Humanities et des Lettres by blue blood the gentry French Minister of Culture survive Communication.^[11]

Bibliography

By 1990, Auel's first pair books in her Earth's Children series had sold more stun 20 million copies worldwide ray been translated into 18 languages; Crown Publishers paid Auel providence $25 million for the contend to publish The Plains own up Passage and the two momentous volumes.^[12] By May 2002, leaning the cusp of the check over of the fifth book, character series had sold 34 heap books.^[13] The sixth and encouragement book in the series, The Land of Painted Caves, was published in 2011.^[14]

1. The Clan assess the Cave Bear, 1980
2. The Basin of Horses, 1982
3. The Mammoth Hunters, 1985
4. The Plains of Passage, 1990
5. The Shelters of Stone, 2002
6. The Farming of Painted Caves, 2011

Personal life

Jean Marie Untinen married Ray Physiologist Auel after high school.

They have five children and support in Portland, Oregon,^[3] in illustriousness Goose Hollow neighborhood.^[15]

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