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Jean Marie Untinen Auel is an American writer, better known as Jean M. Auel. She is best known for her Earth's Children books, a series of historical fiction novels set in prehistoric Europe that explores interactions of Cro-Magnon people with Neanderthals. Her books have sold 34 million copies world-wide in many translations.
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(2011)
The Land of Painted Caves
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(2002)
The Shelters of Stone
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(1990)
The Plains of Passage
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(1985)
The Mammoth Hunters
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(1982)
The Valley of Horses
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- Legal name: Jean M. Auel
- Birthdate: February 18, 1936 (age 76)
- Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Nationality: American
- Gender: Female
- Official Website: http://www.ecfans.com
- Genres: pre-historical fiction
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Jean Marie Auel was born in Chicago, Illinois, as the second of five children. Her father was a housepainter. After high school, she married Ray Bernard Auel in 1954; they had five children. In 1965-66 she worked as a clerk in Beaverton, Oregon, then as a circuit board designer (1966-1973), technical writer (1973-74), and a credit manager (1974-1976). Auel studied at Portland State University, Oregon and University of Portland, receiving her M.B.A. in 1976, at the age of forty. In the same year she got the idea for a story about a girl, Ayla, living amongst people who are different from her. She left her work in a Portland electronics plant and devoted herself entirely to writing.
