Caroline lawrence author biography for book
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Caroline Lawrence was born in London, England.
Caroline lawrence author biography for book
Her American parents returned to the United States shortly afterwards and she grew up in Bakersfield, California with her younger brother and sister. Her father taught English and drama in a local high school and her mother was an artist.
When she was twelve, Caroline’s family moved to Stanford University in northern California so that her father could study Linguistics.
Caroline inherited her father’s love of words and her mother’s love of art. She subsequently studied Classics at Berkeley, where she won a Marshall Scholarship to Cambridge.
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There, at Newnham College, she studied Classical Art and Archaeology.
After Cambridge, Caroline remained in England, and later took an MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College, London. She then taught Latin, French and art at a small London primary school.
In 1999 she got the idea for a series of children’s books like ‘Nancy Drew in Ancient Rome