Stephanie Cowell
Camille from my new novel CLAUDE AND CAMILLE, as painted by her young and ardent lover Claude Monet when she was 19 years old (he had to borrow money for paint)

Stephanie Cowell is represented by Emma Sweeney Agency


NEWS!

CLAUDE AND CAMILLE has been sold for German, Taiwanese, and Italian translation.

THE PLAYERS: A NOVEL OF THE YOUNG SHAKESPEARE has just been released in Serbian

MARRYING MOZART has been optioned for a film.


Stephanie at Mozart's birthplace in Salzburg on a rainy day

"Stephanie Cowell...

photo by Sigrid Estrada
...is a master of her chosen genre. The historical figures become as real to the reader as any contemporary character...one of the best and brightest writers of historical fiction..." Washington Times

Welcome to my website. I have lived in previous centuries in my mind as long as I can remember and love bringing these worlds to life with vivid stories and small details — Mozart was trying to pick up his dirty clothes from the floor for his father's visit while his first great opera score lay half-written on his desk. To combine the great and the intimate in historical fiction with a breathtaking plot is my passion.

MARRYING MOZART is now in its eighth paperback edition and has been translated into seven languages. "A perfect harmony of fact and fiction....tugs at the heartstrings....a grand little mini-opera." Based on the true story of Mozart and the four musical Weber sisters of Vienna, one of whom he eventually happily married — but not the first one he loved. A bookclub and library favorite.

Claude Monet
AND COMING IN MARCH 2010 from CROWN:

CLAUDE AND CAMILLE, the tragic love story of the young, unknown Claude Monet and his great love and muse, Camille Doncieux. He is known to the world as an old man in his garden at Giverny but what was he like when he was young? And what inspired the great water lily paintings?

HISTORICAL NOVELS

THE PLAYERS: A NOVEL OF THE YOUNG SHAKESPEARE
the passionate love story between Shakespeare, his patron and Emilia Bassano -- based on the sonnets
CLAUDE AND CAMILLE
the tragic love story of the young, unknown Claude Monet and his great love and muse Camille Doncieux - publication spring 2010
NICHOLAS COOKE and THE PHYSICIAN OF LONDON
The first two novels of a trilogy about a brilliant Elizabethan man who was an actor, physician and priest
MARRYING MOZART
Four lovely, musical sisters and one suitor -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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