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Author: Deena Lindstedt (USA)  

About the author:  Starting a new life after retiring from a business career, Deena became a full time university student, majoring in English Literature and Writing and graduating with a BA degree.  During her senior year she was inspired by her Shakespeare class, with plays and sonnets and the authorship question.  She was certain a woman must have had a hand in writing the plays since so many of the roles had strong female characters, something unusual in the sixteenth century.

This led Deena to Elizabeth Trentham, the second wife of Edward deVere and 17th Earl of Oxford, and she then spent the next several years researching and writing her novel, Lady of the Play.

Deena published her first novel Deception Cove in 2010, earned third place winner for a poem Two Ladies of Chedigny for Willamette Writers in Oregon, was a finalist for short story Simply to Fly for a NW Writers Association contest in Washington State, and was a guest speaker at the 2011 Shakespeare Authorship Symposium delivering her paper: Shakespeare, Perhaps a Woman.  Deena also prepared a historical cookbook: "Cooking on the Coast" for Cannon Beach Historical Society.