Barbara Mertz was an American author who wrote under her own name as well as under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. In 1952, she received a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago. In the 1960s, Mertz authored two books on ancient Egypt: Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs and Red Land, Black Land, both of which have been perennial bestsellers and are still in print.
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Barbara Mertz is best known for her fictional writings under the pen names Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. But what her legions of fans don’t often know is that she was also a renowned Egyptologist. Her two books on the subject are considered must-read classics and have continued to be in print since the 1960s.
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