Ciji Ware

Ciji Ware is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thirteen works of historical and contemporary fiction and two nonfiction. Among many accolades, she was bestowed the Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence for Fiction and a finalist for the 2012 Will [Cather] Literary Award for Historical Fiction. For her novels set in Scotland she was granted the designation of FSA Scot (Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland), an honor she cherishes. A graduate of Harvard University in...See more

Ciji Ware is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thirteen works of historical and contemporary fiction and two nonfiction. Among many accolades, she was bestowed the Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence for Fiction and a finalist for the 2012 Will [Cather] Literary Award for Historical Fiction. For her novels set in Scotland she was granted the designation of FSA Scot (Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland), an honor she cherishes. A graduate of Harvard University in History and recipient of the Alumni Award, she was the first woman graduate of the University to serve as President of the Harvard Alumni Association, worldwide. Ware is an Emmy-award winning television producer, a DuPont awardee for investigative journalism, and an American Bar Association winner of the Silver Gavel for her magazine work. For eighteen years she was a broadcaster and commentator for KABCV Radio/TV in Los Angeles and now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. See less