Shelley Emling has been a journalist for 20 years. She was born in Missouri. Later she grew up in Dallas, Texas. She went to the University of Texas and started her journalism career at UPI.
Shelley is the author of several books including: Your Guide to Retiring in Mexico, The Fossil Hunter, published by Macmillan in 2009 about paleontologist Mary Anning, whom Shelley had learned of while on a holiday in England and several other books listed below.
Books in order of publication:
Your Guide to Retiring in Mexico – 1996
The Fossil Hunter – 2009
Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science’s First Family – 2012
Setting the World on Fire: The Brief, Astonishing Life of St. Catherine of Siena (2016)
A Forgotten Hero: Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish Humanitarian Who Rescued 30,000 People from the Nazis (2019)
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