Elizabeth Bell
Elizabeth Bell has been writing stories since the second grade. At the age of fourteen, she chose a pen name and vowed to become a published author. That same year, she began The Lazare Family Saga.
New generations and forgotten corners of history kept demanding attention, and the saga became four epic novels. After three decades of research and revision, Elizabeth decided she’d done them justice.
Upon earning her MFA in Creative Writing at George Mason University, Elizabeth realized she would have to return her two hundred library books. Instead, she cleverly found a job in the university library, where she works to this day.
Her historical series The Lazare Family Saga follows a multiracial family struggling to understand where they belon
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Anna is a former journalist, worked in an outback pub in crocodile country, was a political adviser, and an adult educator.
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