| Christopher Willis Gortner | |
| Education: | Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (BA) New College of California (MFA) |
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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.[1] [2] [3]
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.
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.[4] 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.[4]
The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
in 2011 released as The Tudor Secret with an additional scene[5] (St. Martin's Press,)