Who am I?
I am novelist Claudia Hagadus Long, and here you can read all about me, my historical fiction novels, and follow the latest book news and events. I’m a weaver of words, catcher of dreams, and chronicler of the spaces between the lines in the history books: women’s stories, women’s dreams, her-story. In my alternate life I’m the grandmother of two spectacular grandsons, mother of two marvelous kids, weaving chocolate-loving lawyer-mediator, wife and cook.
No, I don’t need a lot of sleep!
My books live in modern times and rich historical settings that show the lives, loves, and lusts of women immersed in a society that they want to be a part of, but as themselves. Jewish women living as Catholics in colonial Mexico. Professional female writers struggling to effect change in early 20th Century California. Mature sisters, daughters of a Holocaust survivor, solving both the secrets of their mother’s past and the very current mysteries of the present.