Authors of Historical NovelsRClick on the author's name to go to the author's website or a fan website for the author, if there is one.
Mary Renault wrote contemporary and historical fiction but is best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece. Abigail Reynolds is the author of a series of novels inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Jean Rhys was born and grew up in the West Indies and wrote mostly contemporary fiction, but is best known for her historical novel Wide Sargasso Sea inspired by the mad wife in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Anne Rice is best known for her vampire novels, which incorporate historical settings, but has also written straight historical fiction; her most recent novels are historical fiction based on the life of Jesus. Frederic Richaud is the author of a novel about the gardener at Louis XIV’s Versailles. Conrad Richter wrote historical novels set about the American West during the years of expansion; he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1951 for his novel The Town. Carme Riera is the author of a novel set on the Spanish Island of Majorca during the Inquisition. Judith Merkle Riley writes novels set in medieval and Renaissance Europe. Francine Rivers writes Christian-themed historical novels. Candace Robb writes mysteries set in medieval Scotland and England. John Maddox Roberts writes the SPQR mystery series set in ancient Rome. Judson Roberts is the author of a series of novels set in Viking Denmark. Tony Roberts is the the current author (beginning with book #25) of the Casca series begun by Barry Sadler. Lucia St. Clair Robson writes historical novels set in various times and places from feudal Japan to the American Old West. Caroline Roe is the pen name of Canadian author Medora Sale, who writes a mystery series set in fourteenth century Spain featuring a blind Jewish physican as sleuth. Martha Rofheart wrote a novel about Richard the Lionheart. Melodie Romeo is the author of an historical novel about Prince Vlad the Impaler. Elisabeth Payne Rosen is the author of Hallam's War, set in Tennessee before and during the Civil War. Rosemary Rowe is the pen name under which Rosemary Aitken writes a mystery series set in Roman Britain. Laura Joh Rowland writes historical novels, including a mystery series set in seventeenth century Japan. Mary Doria Russell writes literary science fiction and historical fiction. Edward Rutherfurd writes sweep-of-history style novels set in England, Russia and Ireland.
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