American novelist
Christopher Willis Gortner is an American author of historical fiction, including the novels "The Last Queen", "The Confessions of Catherine de Medici", and the "Spymaster Trilogy".
His novels are translated in over 25 languages. "The Queen’s Vow" was an international bestseller in Poland. "Mademoiselle Chanel" was a USA Today best-seller, an American Booksellers Association bestseller, and both "The Last Queen" and "Marlene" were Marin Independent Journal best-sellers. He was named one of the top ten historical novelists by The Washington Independent Review of Books and has delivered keynote speeches as a Guest of Honor at the Historical Novel Society Conferences in the United States and the United Kingdom. For ten years before he was published and became a full-time writer, he was a public health administrative analyst. Previously, he worked as a fashion executive.
Personal life.
Gortner was raised in Málaga, Spain and is half-Spanish by birth. His family moved back to the U.S. when he was in his teens. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in San Francisco and Masters of Fine Arts in Writing with a concentration in Renaissance Studies from the New College of California. He lives in Northern California.
Books.
The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
References.
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