Caroline Lawrence is an English American author, best known for The Roman Mysteries series of historical novels for children. The series is about a Roman girl called Flavia and her three friends: Nubia , Jonathan and Lupus . The series has won numerous awards and has been published in many different languages worldwide. In March 2010, Caroline Lawrence was commissioned to write another history mystery series of books called The Western Mysteries, set in Virginia City Nevada Territory in the early 1860s. Caroline was born in London, England. Her American parents returned to the United States... shortly afterwards and she grew up in Bakersfield, California with her younger brother and sister. Her father taught English and drama in a local high school and her mother was an artist. When she was twelve, Caroline's family moved to Stanford University in northern California so that her father could study Linguistics. Caroline inherited her father's love of words and her mother's love of art. She afterwards studied Classics at Berkeley, where she won a Marshall Scholarship to Cambridge.
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