A. J. Hartley is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of books in a variety of genres, including mystery, fantasy, historical fiction, and young adult novels. As an English major at Manchester University, he took extra classes in Egyptology and got a job working on a Bronze Age site just outside Jerusalem. Since then, life has taken him to many places around the world, and though he always leaned more towards the literary than to the strictly historical, his fascination with the past continues unabated. He has an MA and PhD in English literature from Boston University, and he is the Russell Robinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and works as a scholar, screenwriter, dramaturg, and theater director.
