![]() ![]() After numerous attempts to write books and plays, he finally abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983, and returned to his childhood home to write Sarum, a historical novel with a ten-thousand year story, set in the area around the ancient monument of Stonehenge and Salisbury. His debut novel Sarum set the pattern for his work with a ten-thousand year storyline.Įducated locally and at the universities of Cambridge and Stanford, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. Education-Cambridge University and Stanford University.Įdward Rutherfurd is primarily known as a writer of epic historical novels.Spanning 1800 years of Russia's history, people, politics, and culture, this grand saga is as multifaceted as the country itself, as it chronicles the lives of four families who are divided by ethnicity but united in shaping the destiny of their land. The author of the phenomenally successful Sarum: The Novel of England now turns his remarkably vast talents to an even larger canvas. ![]()
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