Jo Graham
, b. 1968
Graham is an American novelist who resides in Maryland. She was influenced by Mary Renault and others. Her maiden novel, Black Ships, was nominated in 2009 for the Locus Award for Best First Novel. In an interview, cited at the end of Black Ships, she recounts her love for mythology. She mentions that she read the Aeneid in Latin "and fell in love with Vergil and his storytelling". (p. 417). She is interested in the ancient period as it was, according to her, a time of crisis and change and she wishes for the readers to think about different kinds of heroes.
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Online interview at web.archive.org (accessed: February 26, 2019)
Profile at fantasticfiction.com (accessed: February 26, 2019)
Bio prepared by Ayelet Peer, Bar-Ilan University, ayelet.peer@gmail.com
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