The daughter of an internationally renowned archaeologist, she worked for an electrical engineering firm for ten years before turning to writing.  
The daughter of an internationally renowned archaeologist, she worked for an electrical engineering firm for ten years before turning to writing.  Later works include Men, Women, and Places and The Faithful Wife, and she published The Wild Orchid and The Burning Bush after her conversion to Roman Catholicism, and her continuing interest in the "immoral love" of women resulted in both Jenny and Images in a Mirror.  But she may be best-known for investigating medieval Nordic themes and her long historical novels, including Olav Audusson and a long work with three parts entitled The Garland, The Mistress of Husaby, and The Cross, respectively.  FTP, name this creator of Kristin Lavransdatter
The daughter of an internationally renowned archaeologist, she worked for an electrical engineering firm for ten years before turning to writing.  
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