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check the Chatroom Schedule for information on upcoming guests and writing-related chat topics. Visit our Previous Guests page to catch up on what you've missed. CHAT WITH SHARAN NEWMANSharan Newman is a medieval historian and author.
She took her Master’s degree in Medieval Literature at Michigan State University and then did her doctoral work at the University of California at Santa Barbara in Medieval Studies, specializing in twelfth-century France. She is a member of the Medieval Academy and the Medieval Association of the Pacific. Newman has written a non-fiction book, The Real History Behind the Da Vince Code Berkley 2005. It is in encyclopedia format and gives information on various topics
mentioned in Dan Brown’s novel. Following on that she has just completed a Real History Behind the Templars which will be published by Berkley in 2007.  Sharan won the Macavity Award for best first mystery for “Death Comes As Epiphany” and the Herodotus Award for best historical mystery of 1998 for Cursed in the Blood. The most recent book in the series The Witch in the Well won the Bruce Alexander award for best Historical mystery of 2004.
The Shanghai Tunnel, set in 1868 Portland, OR, allowed Sharan to explore the history of the city she grew up in. She found that the history she had been taught in school had been seriously whitewashed. Doing research in the city archives as well as the collections at Reed College and the Oregon Historical society was exciting and eye-opening. Many of the “founding fathers” of Portland turn out to have been unscrupulous financiers. Chinese workers were subject to discrimination and there was an active red light district. She lives on a mountainside in Oregon. http://www.sharannewman.com/ | On the Products page you will find some great recommendations. Please use our links to buy, and help support the chatroom! 
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DOOR PRIZE Sharan has donated a copy of "The Real History of the Templars". This will
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