from UC Berkeley in Political Science and later teaching at Claremont McKenna College in the Government department–although she did spend time back on the East Coast obtaining at her master’s degree in Soviet Regional Studies at Harvard. She seems to have lived on the West Coast for much of her life–attaining a Ph. She was born in Maine in 1942 as Judith Astria Merkle but grew up in California. So glad I did because she quickly became one of my favorite authors and has remained so to this day. I stumbled across Riley’s works back in the 90’s at my local library when I was going through my Anne Rice obsession and the cover of The Oracle Glass caught my eye and made me take a closer look. However, all of her works do include elements of the supernatural/the occult/fantasy, so I feel like I’m not off-base by bringing up her writing here as they are very much speculative fiction in that sense. Judith Merkle Riley is not known as a fantasy writer, but an author of historical fiction. You can check out more of the Author Appreciation series here. This originally appeared as part of the Author Appreciation series on the r/fantasy forum.
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