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Sharan Newman is a medieval historian and author. She took her Master’s degree in Medieval Literature at Michigan State University and then did her doctoral work at the University of California at Santa Barbara in Medieval Studies, specializing in twelfth-century France. She is a member of the Medieval Academy and the Medieval Association of the Pacific. Rather than teach, Newman chose to use her education to write novels set in the Middle Ages, including three Arthurian fantasies and ten mysteries set in twelfth-century France, featuring Catherine LeVendeur a one-time student of Heloise at the Paraclete, her husband, Edgar, an Anglo-Scot and Solomon, a Jewish merchant of Paris. The books focus on the life of the bourgeoisie and minor nobility and also the uneasy relations between Christians and Jews at that time. They also incorporate events of the twelfth-century such as the Second Crusade and the rise of the Cathars. For these books, Newman has done research at the Bibliothèque N

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Newman, Sharan – PERSONAL: Born April 15, , in Ann Arbor, MI; daughter of Charles William (a U.S. Air Force captain) and Betty (a psychologist; maiden name, Martin) Hill; married Paul Richard Newman (a physicist), June 12, ; children: Allison.

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Sharan Newman is the author of the Catherine Levendeur mysteries, 10 historical mystery novels set in 12th-century France.

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