Katherine Ashe
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | writer |
| Location | Pennsylvania, United States |
| Introduction | I'm currently publishing Montfort, my work on the life of Simon de Montfort who founded England's Parliament in 1258 and created modern democracy. (see volumes I and II on amazon.com search montfort.) However, when I'm not working on Montfort, I write plays and screenplays on historical subjects, ranging from my play "Supper with the Pope" on the Borgias and the beginnings of Western versus Islamic imperialism, to "The Treasure" about a convent in France where, during WWII, the starving nuns rescued British flyers and hid the Belgian national treasure, |
| Interests | history, philosophy, the Middle Ages, where we are going as a species -- all this serious stuff relieved with a little gardening. |
| Favorite movies | Lawrence of Arabia, Persuasion, Emma, Gosford Park, Cold Comfort farm |
| Favorite music | Boito's Mephistopheles |
| Favorite books | Currently: Beryl Markham's West with the Night; de Toqueville's Democracy in America, and for fun, Steven Saylor's Roma sub Rosa mystery series set in Rome between the time of Sulla and Caesar. |