Stephanie Cowell biography

Stephanie Cowell Biography

Stephanie Cowell was born in New York City to a family of artists and fell in love with Mozart, Shakespeare, and historical fiction at an early age. She began printing stories in a black and white school notebook at about nine years old and in her teens wrote several short novels which remain in a dark box. She learned something though, because by twenty, she had twice won prizes in a national story contest.

Then she left writing for classical singing. She sang in many operas and appeared as an international balladeer; she formed a singing ensemble, a chamber opera company, and so on. The translation of a late Mozart opera returned her to writing once more.

Her first published novel was Nicholas Cooke: Actor, Soldier, Physician, Priest followed by two other Elizabethan-17th century novels: The Physician of London (American Book Award 1996) and The Players: A Novel of the Young Shakespeare. In 2004, she returned to her musical background and wrote Marrying Mozart; it has been translated into seven languages and optioned for a movie.

She is married to poet and reiki practitioner Russell Clay and has two grown sons (one in computer systems design and one a filmmaker). She was born in New York City and is still living here, a short walk away from all the impressionist paintings at the Metropolitan Museum.

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