Steven Saylor will discuss his book, The Triumph of Caesar: A novel of Ancient Rome at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at the Milwood Branch, 12500 Amherst Drive. This is the newest in his series of historical mysteries set in the ancient Rome of Cicero and Caesar and featuring Gordianus the Finder. A book signing will follow the program. Free and open to the public. For additional information call (512) 339-2355 or visit www.cityofaustin.org/library.
About the Authors
Margaret Baacke grew up in Berlin, Germany. She and her twin brother were born in 1923 during the difficult post-World War I era and lived through World War II and the post war period. She experienced the end of the war near Hanover and then enrolled in the University of Marburg in the State of Hesse, Germany. After finishing with the State Board and the Ph.D., she immigrated to the US in the early fifties. She now lives in a quiet neighborhood outside Austin, Texas and is planning to write a second volume, spanning the time from 1945 to 1953, when she immigrated to the USA.
Steven Saylor is author of a number of novels and short stories. Outside the Roman series are two novels set in Saylor's native Texas, A Twist at the End, based on America’s first recorded serial murders, which terrorized Austin, Texas in 1885, and Have You Seen Dawn, a contemporary thriller set in a small Texas town not unlike the one where Steven grew up.
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