7/6/2023 0 Comments Great maria cecelia holland![]() Holland said she decided to write this new book because it focuses on a major turning point in history. Bringing the past to immediate, throbbing life really demands all my skill as a writer - making the people real, making events seem spontaneous and alive. ![]() “History is my way of organizing what I learn and study. She has served as a visiting professor of. Holland - a Humboldt County resident since 1973 - has been writing historical fiction for most of her life. Born in Henderson, Nevada, Cecelia Holland was educated at Pennsylvania State University and Connecticut College, where she received her B.A. The main characters are a renegade Templar and an orphaned Arab boy, but there are Mongols and Mamelukes and Christians and Kurds, a big cast.” “A lot of the places are familiar to us now because people are still fighting over them - Aleppo, Damascus, the Jezreel that area has seen war for 3,500 years. Cecelia Holland was born in 1943 and has written 24 historical novels, the first of which was published in 1966. “It begins with the siege of Baghdad in 1258 and ends with the battle of Ain Jalut in 1260,” she said. Great Maria by Cecelia Holland, 2010, Sourcebooks, Incorporated edition, in English. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pictured is the cover of Cecelia Holland’s new book, “Heart of the World.” (Heather Shelton - The Times-Standard) The 259-page paperback (Ring of Fire Press, September 2020) “is about the Mongol sweep through the Middle East in the mid-13th century,” Holland said in an email interview this week with the Times-Standard. Local author Cecelia Holland’s 30th novel, “Heart of the World,” will soon be available online and via bookstores. ![]()
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