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Iokaste: Description of the Novel
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Reading Guide - for Readers' Circles, Students, Teachers and Professors Pronunciation Guide to Characters in Iokaste and Works in Progress
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Writing Project:Niobe & Pelops: Children of Tantalus Collaborative
Writing: Why Two Heads Are Better Than One Iokaste's Cover
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About the Authors
Victoria Grossack
Dartmouth graduate Victoria Grossack leads an international life, with homes in Switzerland and Arizona and a professional career in the financial industry that has spanned the Atlantic. She is fluent in German and French (and English of course) and has an MBA. Her last position was as a Senior Vice President in New York City for a reinsurance company, but she is currently writing full-time and living with her husband who is a professor at the University of Arizona. Her writing has been published in Contingencies, Woman’s World, I Love Cats, and The Journal of Actuarial Practice. She is a regular columnist for Fiction Fix at the website Coffeehouseforwriters, writing monthly articles that have been used in several writing classes. She teaches a writing course at Coffeehouseforwriters on the levels of structure in fiction. If you would prefer to read the book rather than take the course on-line, you can Go to Booklocker to Buy Levels of Structure in Fiction.
Alice Underwood studied classics at The University of Texas and Princeton University while earning her degrees in mathematics. Her passion for antiquity has taken her from the shadowed catacombs of Princeton’s libraries to the ruins of Pompeii and the sunny shores of Crete and Santorini. Her work has been published in Consortium, Networks, and The Journal of Actuarial Practice. Currently an Executive Vice President at one of the world’s top insurance brokerage firms, Alice lives and works in New York City.
Alice Underwood
In 1998, Victoria and Alice tied for first place in an international short
story contest. After collaborating on several nonfiction pieces, they decided to
apply their complementary strengths and perspectives to a work of fiction. Their
first novel, Iokaste, reimagines the story of Oedipus from the point of
view of his wife and mother. A vibrant tale set in Bronze Age Greece, Iokaste has garnered
rave reviews from university faculty, publications such as Historical Novels Reviews
Online, and numerous readers. A Greek-language version of Iokaste was
released by Kedros Publishers of Athens in 2006. In 2009, Kedros released Niobe and Pelops, the
first novel of a trilogy based on the life and myths surrounding Niobe. Victoria and Alice are currently working on the next thread
in their "Tapestry of Bronze" series. Taking place before Iokaste, the trilogy based on the myths surrounding Niobe follows the lives, loves, and crimes of two
rival kings in Bronze Age Greece. King Pelops is Niobe's brother; King Amphion, her husband - and Niobe is torn between
the two. Their journeys through the years before the Trojan War
will enthrall readers yet again. Hard at work... 