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The research and editing for this novel was ably assisted by Mary E. Gardner, Rae Newell Meriaux, Carolyn Horan, Julie Biddle, Susan Clark, Jerry Burroni, Larissa Bonfante, Seymour Collins, Gary Thompson, Molly Buckley, Martinia Hücke, Thomas A.J. McGinn, Guido Sirolla and Suzanne Narayanan, owners of Villa Narsi in Santa Fiora, and sister-in-law Janet Todd. Playwright and Lawrence scholar Neal Metcalf assisted with the details regarding D.H. Lawrence and made helpful additions to the letters.
Invaluable feedback and coaching was provided by my supportive and talented writing group, composed of Judith Fisher and Ida Egli, who is also my editor.
My husband, Dr. Morgan Dale Lambert, fulfills my life and my writing adventures as supporter, researcher, and editor—as well as playing the role of the arrogant archeologist, Dr. Morgan Jenner, in this novel. I must point out that my Morgan is neither arrogant nor an archaeologist.
Linda Lambert, Ed.D.
Santa Rosa, California
www.lindalambert.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LINDA LAMBERT, Ed.D. is Professor Emeritus from California State University, East Bay, and a full time author of novels and texts on leadership. During Linda’s career she has served as social worker, teacher, principal, district and county directors of adult learning programs, as well as university professor, state department envoy to Egypt, and international consultant. Her international consultancies in leadership have taken her to the Middle East, England, Thailand, Mexico, Canada, and Malaysia. Linda is the author of dozens of articles and lead author of The Constructivist Leader (1995, 2002), Who Will Save Our Schools (1997), and Women’s Ways of Leading (2009); she is the author of Building Leadership Capacity in Schools (1998) and Leadership Capacity for Lasting School Improvement (2003). The Cairo Codex, her first novel in the trilogy was widely acclaimed. It was the winner of the Silver Nautilus Award and the Bronze IPPY Award, 2014. She lives with her husband, Morgan, a retired school superintendent, on the Santa Rosa, California.