1945 -2021

“An historical novelist of the first rank.” —Publishers’ Weekly

Read this op-ed from Sharon Kay Penman for the History News Network: Historical Novelists Owe the Truth to Readers – and to History (March 2020)

• Sharon’s Favorite Blogs
• Websites Sharon Recommends
• Writers Sharon Recommends
• Sharon’s Research Recommendations
• Sharon’s Medieval Mishaps
• The Penman Chronicles – past letters from Sharon (2003-2013)
• Posts from the Eleanor of Aquitaine Tour 2011

Sharon Kay Penman is the author of nine critically acclaimed historical novels: The Sunne in Splendour, Here be Dragons, Falls the Shadow, The Reckoning, When Christ and his Saints Slept, Time and Chance, Devil’s Brood, Lionheart, and A King’s Ransom. Her tenth historical novel, The Land Beyond the Sea, was published in March of 2020.  She has also written four medieval mysteries. Her first was The Queen’s Man, the queen in question being Eleanor of Aquitaine, a finalist for an Edgar Award for Best First Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America. Her other mysteries are Cruel as the Grave, Dragon’s Lair, and Prince of Darkness.

Sharon Kay Penman passed away on Friday, January 22, 2021. Penman’s family confirmed through the New York Times, that the cause of death was pneumonia. She was 75 years old. Read the New York Times obituary here.

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