Susan Ronald is a British-American writer, born in Los Angeles California. She has lived most of my adult life in Europe – first in France and then home in England for over twenty years. History and translating it into commercially viable projects have been my lifeblood for my entire career — be it restoration of historic buildings to alternate use for governments, biographies of historical figures, or writing film scripts about famous people like William Shakespeare, Eleanor of Aquitaine, or Tsar Nicholas II. Still, writing non-fiction books has been my primary focus since becoming a full-time writer in 2010.
Books in order of publication:
The Sancy Blood Diamond: Power, Greed, and the Cursed History of One of the World’s Most Coveted Gems – 2004
The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire – 2007
Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion – 2012
Shakespeare’s Daughter: A Novel – 2014
Hitler’s Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe’s Treasures – 2015
A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator – The Life of Florence Gould – 2018
Condé Nast: The Man and His Empire — A Biography – 2019
The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James’s 1938-1940 – 2021
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