An Author So Awesome She Needed Three Names
On August 8, we lost Barbara Mertz. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, how about Barbara Michaels? Or Elizabeth Peters? That’s the one that hits me. We’ve lost Elizabeth Peters. We’ll have no more Amelia Peabody forever. The marvelous adventures in Egypt have come to an end. No more beating people with parasols. No more shirts ruined. I want to say something intelligent and insightful about this writer, but I really can’t. Except that she wrote nearly seventy novels. Excuse me–published nearly seventy novels. That makes me feel like such a slacker.