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Christopher Willis Gortner | |
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 Gortner in 2015. | |
| Education | Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (BA) New College of California (MFA) |
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Christopher Willis Gortner is an American author of historical fiction, including the novels The Last Queen, The Confessions of Catherine de Medici, and the Spymaster Trilogy.[1][2][3]
His novels are translated in over 25 languages. The Queen’s Vow was an international bestseller in Poland. Mademoiselle Chanel was a USA Today best-seller, an American Booksellers Association bestseller, and both The Last Queen and Marlene were Marin Independent Journal best-sellers. He was named one of the top ten historical novelists by The Washington Independent Review of Books and has delivered keynote speeches as a Guest of Honor at the Historical Novel Society Conferences in the United States and the United Kingdom. For ten years before he was published and became a full-time writer, he was a public health administrative analyst. Previously, he worked as a fashion executive.
- ^ "The Last Queen book review". publishersweekly.com. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
- ^ "The Confessions of Catherine de Medici". publishersweekly.com. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
- ^ "The Tudor Secret". publishersweekly.com. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 10 November 2014.